Oct 7, 2026 · 52 min · 8 segments
The dust is settling on the Joey Porter Jr. trade. Jenna Harner and Mike DeFabo discuss the winner of the trade, and where a Steelers secondary in flux goes from here. Plus, James Boyd from The…
Mike DeFaboHostJames BoydGuest
Jenna HarnerHost
Mike, at the quarter point of the season, the quarter pole, if you will, the Steelers sit here at two and two, but I think we'd be remiss if we didn't start by talking about the Joey Porter Jr. trade, the saga, everything you wanna call it, has officially come to an end in the early morning of Thursday ahead of the Browns game, the Thursday Night Football game.
The Steelers sending Joey Porter Jr. to Dallas in exchange for a 2028 second round pick and a 2027 sixth, or sorry, 2027 sixth round pick.
It, it truly felt like it was only a matter of time after Porter Jr. was ruled out for the fourth straight game that this was going to end in a trade, and I think now we can kinda step back and look at it from a little bit of a tree-toppy perspective here now that time has settled, because both sides look bad, and the Steelers, to me, lost this emphatically.
So, I mean, if you're sick of the Joey Porter Jr. saga, just go ahead and for- fast-forward, like, five, 10 minutes.
Unfortunately, this is a once-a-week podcast and we have to address this big situation.
I mean, so let's just look through who's the winners, who's the losers, and to me, the clear winner in all of this is David Mulggeta.
He is the same, this is the same agency that used the Jalen Ramsey fake back injury in 2019 to get him out of Jacksonville, the fake back injury for Michael Parsons to get him out of Dallas, and now a fake back injury to get Joey Porter Jr. out of Pittsburgh.
And he has now created a situation where he has multiple clients with the Cowboys, most significantly George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr., two potential franchise tag players.
So, what this agent and this agency have guaranteed themselves, and you gotta give them credit, because they played their cards perfectly in all of this, um, this, the Cowboys cannot franchise tag both George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr.
So one or both of those guys is going to get a massive payday and massive guaranteed money.
They've now set a precedent, if you want to negotiate with David Mulggeta or Athletes First, you had better fork over guaranteed money or else they're going to go to the lowest and the dirtiest form of negotiation, which is faking injuries.
He's clearly the winner in all of this, um, despite what he may have, you know, this agency might have had to give up.
I did think it was interesting that Jalen Ramsey, after the game, I mean, it's kind of seemed like through all of this he's been in Joey Porter Jr.'s ear, potentially giving him the playbook of what to do.
In case there was any question what role he played in all of this, he came out and I think he thought that he was, you know, defending Joey or giving him a proper send-off.
Mike, at the quarter point of the season, the quarter pole, if you will, the Steelers sit here at two and two, but I think we'd be remiss if we didn't start by talking about the Joey Porter Jr. trade, the saga, everything you wanna call it, has officially come to an end in the early morning of Thursday ahead of the Browns game, the Thursday Night Football game.
The Steelers sending Joey Porter Jr. to Dallas in exchange for a 2028 second round pick and a 2027 sixth, or sorry, 2027 sixth round pick.
It, it truly felt like it was only a matter of time after Porter Jr. was ruled out for the fourth straight game that this was going to end in a trade, and I think now we can kinda step back and look at it from a little bit of a tree-toppy perspective here now that time has settled, because both sides look bad, and the Steelers, to me, lost this emphatically.
So, I mean, if you're sick of the Joey Porter Jr. saga, just go ahead and for- fast-forward, like, five, 10 minutes.
Unfortunately, this is a once-a-week podcast and we have to address this big situation.
I mean, so let's just look through who's the winners, who's the losers, and to me, the clear winner in all of this is David Mulggeta.
He is the same, this is the same agency that used the Jalen Ramsey fake back injury in 2019 to get him out of Jacksonville, the fake back injury for Michael Parsons to get him out of Dallas, and now a fake back injury to get Joey Porter Jr. out of Pittsburgh.
And he has now created a situation where he has multiple clients with the Cowboys, most significantly George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr., two potential franchise tag players.
So, what this agent and this agency have guaranteed themselves, and you gotta give them credit, because they played their cards perfectly in all of this, um, this, the Cowboys cannot franchise tag both George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr.
So one or both of those guys is going to get a massive payday and massive guaranteed money.
They've now set a precedent, if you want to negotiate with David Mulggeta or Athletes First, you had better fork over guaranteed money or else they're going to go to the lowest and the dirtiest form of negotiation, which is faking injuries.
He's clearly the winner in all of this, um, despite what he may have, you know, this agency might have had to give up.
I did think it was interesting that Jalen Ramsey, after the game, I mean, it's kind of seemed like through all of this he's been in Joey Porter Jr.'s ear, potentially giving him the playbook of what to do.
In case there was any question what role he played in all of this, he came out and I think he thought that he was, you know, defending Joey or giving him a proper send-off.
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