PITTSBURGH — Seven snaps. That’s how many snaps Steelers rookie cornerback Joey Porter Jr. had on Sunday in his debut. After coaches talked him up and how he would play a lot, that came as a surprise, with Patrick Peterson and Levi Wallace absorbing most of the snaps.
However, Mike Tomlin noted that Porter should have played more, but the way the 49ers played did not lend itself to that. Pittsburgh stayed in base most of the time because the 49ers ran so much out of 21 personnel with two running backs, specifically with Kyle Juszczyk at fullback. Then, the 49ers stayed ahead of the sticks by running the football the entire game.
“They did such a really good job of staying on schedule that it was probably less than we anticipated,” Tomlin said. “And oftentimes you guys are asking about division of labor, the amount of exposure of talent and so forth, we have intentions and an agenda and sometimes game circumstances change those agendas. And that’s why I described the game the way I’ve described it. The 49ers were able to play to their agenda and their plans, and we were not. Obviously, we had intentions of playing Joey more than that, but you better have them behind the chains and off schedule a little bit more than we had them off schedule. If not, then you’ll play seven snaps of dime because you don’t play dime on third down and two, you know what I mean.”
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