Pittsburgh's old pairing, George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr., meets again in Dallas
A short about the two former Steelers drew about fifty-five times a usual first day for the channel, and the comments filled up arguing over one catch.
NFL on CBSStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 220,387 views a day, 55 times a normal first day on this channel (4,024).
George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr. are teammates again in Dallas #nfl
"George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr. are teammates again in Dallas" is a short clip on NFL on CBS, the network's football channel. Fourteen hours after it went up it had close to 167,000 views, about fifty-five times what a new short there usually draws in a full day.
The reunion is the hook. Pickens, the wide receiver, and Porter, the cornerback, spent the 2023 and 2024 seasons together in Pittsburgh before Pickens was traded to the Cowboys in 2025. As the title has it, the two now share a locker room again, this time in Dallas.
The comment section moved even faster than the views. It reached over a hundred comments, where a usual short collects a handful in its whole first day. Many viewers joke that Porter must be relieved he no longer has to guard Pickens. Many more replay one moment: a one-handed grab by Pickens, which half the thread admires and the other half calls offensive pass interference, with a side argument about a tug on Porter's facemask. A few compare quarterbacks and wonder how Dak Prescott would handle a throw into that kind of traffic.
Pickens was not the channel's only busy short. A clip titled "Diggs was stunned", a question about where Tyreek Hill will play this season, and a moment with someone named Bryce telling a person to "google it" all ran well past the usual first day too. None of them came close to the Pittsburgh pair.
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What viewers say
JPJ is happy he never has to guard Pickens anytime soon
@davidsaunders7612See it on YouTubeDid he just one hand snag that 😱
@JosephMcallSee it on YouTubeIron sharpens iron
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- Channel
- NFL on CBS
- Subscribers
- 174,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 677,395 (on a normal day: 662,254)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 166,976 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 220,387
The numbers
The figures show how far a single reunion short ran ahead of the channel's ordinary first day, along with the other shorts that also took off.
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George Pickens played his college football at which school?
Pickens was a wide receiver for the Georgia Bulldogs before the Steelers drafted him in 2022.
