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As the Pittsburgh Steelers inched closer and closer to their week two matchup against the New England Patriots, an injury report that came out today spells not good things for the future of Joy Porter Jr. in Pittsburgh and for what this week two matchup could look like. How is everyone doing today? Hopefully you guys had a great week. Week two, like I mentioned at the top, is getting closer and closer. We're almost here to this week two matchup. It's going to be really interesting to see, but before we get into some of the players that we might not see that game, I want to remind you guys to subscribe to the channel. Obviously a lot of news with the Steelers right now and not a lot of good stuff, right? A lot of things could be happening. We could possibly see a trade. I have been saying for a long time we could possibly see a contract resigning, but I don't think we're going to get there. There's news that seems like it's on the horizon here, and even if it's not that, just week in, week out, the Steelers have games again and they're trying to make that playoff push like they always are. You want to get all that information here on Steelers Digest, but let's jump into this injury report that I mentioned at the top of the show. Joy Porter Jr. is out for the week two game against the New England Patriots, and Michael Pittman Jr. and Troy Fattanu are both questionable. Darnell Washington, who didn't practice all the way up to Thursday, was dealing with a personal issue. He will be ready to go. Cameron Hayward, they're usually pretty lenient. They don't have him do a lot, especially with his age. When it comes to practice, they really are hesitant. That's the word I'm trying to find. They're hesitant with him when it comes to practice. He'll play, but again, like I mentioned, no Joy Porter Jr. for sure. Troy Fattanu had an ankle injury. It's hard to say if he's going to play. He's questionable. And then Michael Pittman Jr., dealing with a foot injury, he is questionable as well. I will add, Troy Fattanu did practice today, but no Joy Porter Jr. today, at least in a full capacity, and no Michael Pittman Jr. Let's focus on the man of the hour, the man of the week, the man of this entire month, it feels like, in Joy Porter Jr. The saga rages on. He did go through a stretch line earlier in practice today, but he did exit with trainers, and he didn't really do much when he was on the field. Today he was, on Thursday, he was listed as NIR, slash conditioning, slash back. Just a very frustrating situation. I don't know about you guys, but this is really starting to just, it's hard to say if it's a distraction on the team, right? I think that'll be more prevalent, how they play on Sunday and how they play in the next weeks, if this whole situation is creating distraction. The Steelers have messed this up to begin with. I know some people think the number that Joy Porter Jr. was asking for was a lot. I think for how this NFL is working right now, if you sign him and you tie him down for a long time, by the end of his contract, when he gets up close to the 30s, that contract's going to be a good deal. If you want to get these really good young quarterbacks tied down, you're going to have to pay him a lot of money. Is it more money than he's worth? I'd say so, but we're going to end up losing him. I was talking to a friend earlier, I don't know if Joy Porter Jr., and I'm curious what you guys think about this, I don't know if Joy Porter Jr. plays another game for the Pittsburgh Steelers at this rate. With how downhill this entire situation has gone, I don't think we see him again. There's some Steelers fans on one side of the aisle that say good riddance, and there's some on the other side of the aisle that really want him back. I think everyone collectively be like, whatever comes to this situation, just get done with it. Because it's obvious that this injury or whatever it is, I'm not going to speculate on how much of an injury it is. But it's just not a good situation at all for the Steelers and just for, honestly, Joy Porter Jr. Kind of at the bottom here, you can see more news on Joy Porter Jr., but like I mentioned, Michael Pittman Jr. did not practice. Troy Fatanu was limited with an ankle injury. And then I also mentioned this earlier, Darnell Washington, I believe this was actually on Thursday, because he was a full participant today, if I'm not mistaken. We'll take a look back at this injury report. Yeah, full practice on Friday. So he had a personal issue, he'll be back. That's really good to see. And it's going to be really important because Michael Pittman Jr. and on the Steelers, on the Patriots ends of things here, Mike Vrabel says there will be no Carlton Davis. Well, sorry, he will be questionable. I get ahead of myself. He will be questionable ahead of this Sunday's game with a neck injury. So that's really interesting because on one side of the aisle, you have a wide receiver that's questionable. On the other side of the aisle, you have a quarterback that is questionable. So I think this is really going to open up an opportunity for wide receiver Roman Wilson in this game. I'm going to call my shot here. No Michael Pittman Jr., no Carlton Davis. I think Roman Wilson's going to have a career day on Sunday. Am I going to shoot myself in the foot by saying this? Probably. But I'll explain to you why say this before I get ahead of myself more than I probably already am. But we saw what the Steelers were trying to do for Roman Wilson in week one. If you remove two things, a frankly dropped ball in the end zone and a defensive pass interference, Roman Wilson would have been around the 70 to 80 yard mark in receiving. He would have led the team. He would have had a touchdown. Ethical touchdown, if you will. Ethical is not the right words. But again, the only offensive touchdown the Steelers had was off a Jaquan Briscoe interception. This one would have felt like, okay, here we go. The Steelers are moving the ball down the field. Roman Wilson is showing his speed and he's able to catch that. But backtrack a little bit. If he catches those two balls, leads the team in receiving, and has a lot of eyes on him, I think he could do a similar thing against the New England Patriots. Again, both of me talking about Michael Pitman Jr. and Carlton Davis are ifs because they're questionable. There's a chance that this entire argument is nothing because they both play. But if no Michael Pitman Jr., again, he didn't practice. I'm currently operating under the expectation that we're not going to see him. It's possible we will, but I'm going to say I don't think we are. And if we see no Carlton Davis, Roman Wilson is wide receiver too. And there's no Carlton Davis. Christian Gonzalez is probably going to focus his attention on DK Metcalf. I think that could really open up an opportunity for Roman Wilson to possibly flourish. I wonder, and again, even Aaron Rodgers came out today, really talking glowingly of Roman Wilson. Roman Wilson's been getting a lot of glowing reviews. Obviously not a whole lot's translated so far, but before the season he showed a lot of good things. I think we're going to see some of that in this game. And if we don't see that from Roman Wilson, if the Steelers can get this receiving game going, which I think is going to be something that needs to go in the Steelers' favor if they want to upset the New England Patriots. Currently I believe they're 4.5 point underdogs, something like that. But if no Roman Wilson, I think you could see Jeremy Bernard. If Michael Pitman Jr. doesn't play like we think he's going to, that's going to force them to have to play Jeremy Bernard at least at a wide receiver three capacity. And the Steelers spread the ball out week one. So you would imagine you would see a little bit of Jeremy Bernard as well. But it's going to be really interesting to see how the Steelers' offense could change with no Michael Pitman Jr., with no Carlton Davis. Curious what you guys think about the game. I'll have a video coming up before the actual game, really getting into the matchup between both of the teams. And then, like I mentioned, if anything happens with Joey Porter Jr., either good or bad for the Steelers, if he gets traded to a team, if he's still sitting out, whatever happens, you can get it right here at Steelers Digest. So I'll see you guys really, really soon. Week two is just days away. It's really exciting. So I'll see you guys later.