Bengals defeat Steelers on Thursday Night Football | Postgame video
Enquirer beat reporter Kelsey Conway breaks down the Bengals’ win over the Steelers on Thursday Night Football.
Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back Joey Porter Jr. wasn’t penalized for defensive pass interference during the fourth quarter of the team’s NFL Week 7 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium on Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football despite pulling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins to the ground on Joe Flacco’s 3rd-and-13 attempt to Higgins.
Fans booed when officials refused to throw a flag.
“Looks like a little hand-fighting,” Amazon Prime Video rules analyst Terry McAulay said during the broadcast. “A little pull at the end. I don’t think it’s enough for a foul.”
Porter entered Week 7 with six tackles and two passes defended in two games this season.
Porter injured his knee in 2024 against the Baltimore Ravens.
Porter is in his third NFL season with the Steelers. He was a second-round pick of Pittsburgh out of Penn State in the 2023 NFL draft.
Porter and his father, Joey Porter Sr., were featured in the second episode of “Hard Knocks: In Season with the AFC North.” Porter Sr. said he refuses to eat in Cincinnati, Baltimore or Cleveland because of how NFL fans in those cities feel about him.
Porter Sr. is a former Steelers linebackers coach who was fined $10,000 for an altercation with Bengals defensive back Adam Jones after Porter went onto the field to check on injured Antonio Brown following Vontaze Burfict’s hit during Pittsburgh’s 18-16 AFC Wild Card win against Cincinnati in January 2016.
The “Joey Porter rule” in 2016 was one of four changes, clarifications or reminders the NFL established resulting from the Bengals-Steelers rivalry.