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Watch: Pat McAfee Complimentary of Penn State CB Joey Porter Jr.

Penn State CB Joey Porter Jr.
Photo by Penn State Athletics: Joey Porter Jr.

Penn State cornerback Joey Porter Jr. has already received praise from national media in this young college football season.

Skip Bayless praised Porter for his performance in Week 1โ€™s win over Purdue.

โ€œHow the Cowboys could use him opposite Trevon Diggs at corner,โ€ Bayless tweeted. โ€œHeck, some games, in place of Diggs.โ€

Pat McAfee also praised Porter on College Gameday ahead of Saturdayโ€™s showdown at Auburn.

โ€œTheyโ€™ve got a guy named Joey Porter Jr.,โ€ McAfee said. โ€œWho is the son of Joey Porter Sr. Joey Porter Sr, menace in the NFL at linebacker.โ€

The elder Joey Porter had an excellent NFL career, playing most of it for McAfeeโ€™e hometown Pittsburgh Steelers. Porter Sr. made five All-Pro teams in his 13-year career, playing with the Steelers from 1999-2006 and winning a Super Bowl in the 2005 season.

โ€œ(Porter Sr.) was a problem,โ€ McAfee said. โ€œHis son, the same thing at corner for Penn State.โ€

Porterโ€™s game at Purdue may have been the best of his career. Although he wasnโ€™t perfect in Week 1- dropping an interception on Purdueโ€™s first drive that could have been a pick-six, and getting called for a pass interference in the red zone early in the third quarterโ€” Porter forced six incompletions (per Pro Football Focus), broke up three passes (two in the fourth quarter) and held his own through 16 targets.

The six forced incompletions were the most since PFF started tracking college football in 2014.

McAfee then picked Penn State to beat Auburn because he doesnโ€™t think โ€œwe know anything about Auburn yet.โ€

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