.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Team WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell returned to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer months of 2022. She left behind the business in 2019 after participating in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a graduate of LSU and also a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, as well as she has actually covered the NFL because 2013. You may observe Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints protection and ALS supporter Steve Gleason is steady and also bouncing back at a local area hospital after a clinical occasion previously recently, depending on to his public relations consultant Clare Durrett.Durrett claimed Gleason increased a fever as well as had very low blood pressure Wednesday, motivating his doctor to propose he be taken to a hospital.However, this desired Cyclone Francine, a Type 2 tornado, brought in landfall near Morgan Urban area, Louisiana, with continual winds of practically 100 miles per hour. Nearly 390,000 citizens throughout Louisiana died, as well as New Orleans and also bordering regions experienced some road flooding.Durrett mentioned there was actually a worry that ambulance as well as very first responders would certainly certainly not have the capacity to arrive at Gleason, however "fortunately, they created it by means of to him at a time when Steve's health and wellness was actually falling apart."" They right away stabilized him and moved him to Ochsner," Durrett claimed. "He remains there and also secure. He is actually remaining to be actually dealt with, and also our experts are hopeful Steve is going to perform what Steve does as well as warrior by means of to obtain home as promptly as possible." Gleason's authorities X profile uploaded an upgrade Thursday morning saying thanks to the 1st -responders and the hospital for handling Gleason.Gleason was detected with ALS, for which there is actually currently no remedy, in 2011 and also now inhales with a ventilator. He interacts utilizing his eyes using a focused tablet computer attached to his wheelchair.Gleason's team submitted a notification from him Friday: "ALS is actually a storm of an illness. And also on 9/11 in the midst of Storm Francine, electrical power outages & sketchy phone service, hurricane ALS created landfall. Thank you for the strong passion and also assistance coming from each of you. Celebrate this odds to become viable as well as breathing. I adore yall - SG." An information coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Difficult" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a previous Saints exclusive staffs leader who played seven times for New Orleans, is actually most understood on the area for his shut out punt versus the Atlanta ga Falcons in the Saints' very first video game back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 adhering to Cyclone Katrina. He is right now a proponent for ALS awareness as well as operates through his non-profit Crew Gleason to provide innovation, devices and assistance services to others dealing with ALS.He was the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Nerve Award in July. He and co-writer Jeff Duncan also recently published Gleason's narrative "A Life Inconceivable," which Gleason wrote using his eyes.