Tag: Erick All

Former Iowa football star feared to have suffered season-ending injury

A former Iowa football star is feared to have suffered a season-ending knee injury.

In a promising rookie season with the Cincinnati Bengals, former Hawkeyes tight end Erick All Jr. is feared to have suffered another significant right knee injury during Sunday’s game versus the Las Vegas Raiders.

During his lone season at Iowa after transferring following four years with the Michigan Wolverines, All played in seven games for the Hawkeyes. All caught 21 receptions for 299 yards and three touchdowns with Iowa.

Unfortunately for All, his 2023 season was cut short after he suffered a torn ACL in his right knee versus Wisconsin.

All went on to be drafted by the Bengals in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL draft with the 115th overall pick. The 6-foot-5, 253 pound tight end had started developing decent chemistry with quarterback Joe Burrow until his injury on Sunday.

Following the team’s 41-24 victory over the Raiders, Bengals head coach Zac Taylor expressed concern that All’s injury could be serious.

“I hate to think about it,” Taylor said of All’s injury. “I don’t know all the information yet with Erick, because he was having such a tremendous rookie season. He’s just an all-around great football player. He’s got that mindset, and he means a lot to this offense. When he went out, it certainly affected a lot of things.”

The rookie tight end will undergo an MRI on Monday to determine the extent of the injury, but the initial suspicion is another torn ACL in his right knee.

Fox NFL insider Jordan Schultz reported that the fear from the Bengals is a torn ACL.

All finished with two catches for 24 yards Sunday, and he has 20 receptions for 158 yards in nine games this season with the Bengals.

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Bengals get crushing injury update on breakout rookie

The Bengals lose a key rookie.

(This story was updated to add new information.)

The Cincinnati Bengals will lose a key piece of the offense for the remainder of the season in the wake of that Week 9 win over the Las Vegas Raiders.

Breakout rookie tight end Erick All Jr., who left the game with a knee injury and didn’t return, is feared to have torn his ACL, according to Fox Sports’ Jordan Schultz.

All, who tore his ACL in the same knee in October of 2023, fell in the draft to the Bengals in the fourth round this year due to medical concerns. But he quickly worked into the mix this summer.

Quickly, meaning he immediately carved out playing time for himself in specific packages because of his ability as a receiver and blocker — and due to how quickly he developed trust with Joe Burrow.

Now, the Bengals have a pretty big hole in the offense where All had dominated. With Drew Sample more of a blocker and Mike Gesicki a downfield threat, the Bengals lose some of their effectiveness in two-tight end looks and others.

With All out, the team will lean more on the likes of Tanner Hudson while attempting to run the same offense.

Update: Bengals head coach Zac Taylor confirmed on Monday that All suffered a torn ACL.

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Bengals rookie’s willingness to get violent sets him apart

A Bengals rookie breakout continues to do the little things that matter.

The Cincinnati Bengals addressed the tight end room in multiple ways over the offseason, most notably signing Mike Gesicki and drafting Erick All with their fourth-round selection.

And so far, All has already been showing that he was worth that draft capital in multiple ways in his rookie season. His blocking ability has been noticed by his new offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher, who commented on it early in October.

“I’ll say this. Maybe it goes beyond willing and turns into eager — an eagerness to be violent,” Pitcher said. “That’s probably a better descriptor.”

That is one way he has been earning himself playing time, but he has also shown off his ability to be a pass catcher in his rookie campaign.

He has brought in 18 catches for 134 yards with no scores yet. He has three games this season with four catches, coming in three straight weeks.

All is proving to be one of few tight ends who can successfully block and catch at an above-average level for his position, and those could only get better with more experience at the next level.

While his rookie season isn’t likely going exactly as he planned at the team level to this point, All is providing some great early returns for the Bengals on the field and has been a bright spot.

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Hype for Bengals rookie TE Erick All Jr. just keeps growing

Bengals rookie Erick All Jr. gets praise from Joe Burrow and others as his role grows.

It should be obvious by now that the Cincinnati Bengals have big plans for rookie tight end Erick All Jr. in his debut season.

All, back from a string of injuries that dropped his otherwise high draft stock to the fourth round, got some notable work in the preseason in two tight end sets.

Fast forward to the regular season, All has been targeted four times in the passing game and has had a number of notable blocks.

And this week? He’s even getting singled out with praise from quarterback Joe Burrow, who said “you can put a lot on his plate” in regards to the rookie.

It sounds like a little thing, but just ask wideout Jermaine Burton what it means to earn the trust of Burrow so early. Burton’s narrative has changed completely over the course of the last week and now All is right there getting notable praise, too

While the top tight end spot still figures to go to Mike Gesicki this early in the year and nobody will knock Drew Sample out of his blocking role, All is a contributor perhaps earlier than anticipated and clearly looks like a major part of the future.

https://twitter.com/Bengals/status/1836849391182684533

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Bengals rookie’s comeback story hyped by NFL expert

Bengals fans are going to love this story and player.

The Cincinnati Bengals season is almost here, and the rookies taken in the draft will be playing their first professional snaps in the coming weeks.

For tight end Erick All, it won’t only be his first time playing professional football but the time in a while that he’s going to be injury-free, and one NFL expert believes the Bengals might have found themselves a very good tight end for fairly cheap.

Louis Riddick of ESPN tweeted before the draft that All can be great in the NFL if he can stay healthy.

“If the medicals (knee rehab, past back issues) are behind him, he is a starting caliber TE in the league that will be a problem as a route runner, and a very solid, versatile run blocker,” Riddick’s tweet read.

All suffered a back injury in 2022 when he was at Michigan, missing the rest of the season before he transferred to Iowa. Then he tore his ACL with the Hawkeyes in 2023, getting ruled out for the rest of the season.

But now he comes into this season in seemingly good health, and despite some good NFL veteran presence ahead of him on the depth chart in his rookie season, he could earn some playing time and show off what it was that made him a fourth round draft pick in April.

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PUP or breakout? Rookie Erick All impresses at Bengals training camp

Despite recent roster moves, a notable Bengals rookie could still start the season on an injury list.

It seems like the hype around Cincinnati Bengals rookie tight end Erick All comes with a rocket ship.

Fans were undeniably hyped about All getting activated earlier than expected. The fourth-rounder carries massive upside despite the college injury history, so his activation was a nice bonus.

Still, on the day of All’s activation, Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com suggested that the rookie was a likely PUP candidate to start the season, especially after a conversation with head coach Zac Taylor, who brought up tight ends coach James Casey.

“There are still some things from a medical standpoint he can continue to do to strengthen it. So part of the plan is clearing him so that now he’s able to take walk-through reps and the above-the-neck stuff instead of standing back there by James,” Taylor said. “So he can actually get in there on some of the walk-through and jog-through stuff and as part of his rehab, get in on the routes on air. But we’ll be very slow to put him in any contact situation. Who knows? I’m not going to put any timeline on that.” …

But the idea All would be brought along slowly died on Tuesday.

There, All was right in the middle of the field making a tough catch in traffic — on the first day of padded work, via Fox 19’s Joe Danneman:

So…while the messaging around All has been a little mixed, it sure looks like he’s getting into gear just fine right after his activation.

And if things keep at this pace without issue, he certainly has the talent to make some noise on a quietly deep tight end depth chart headlined by Mike Gesicki, Drew Sample and Tanner Hudson.

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Bengals rookie Erick All cleared for training camp practices

The Bengals get some huge news about a high-upside rookie.

The Cincinnati Bengals got a significant development at the tight end position over the weekend.

Sunday, the team cleared fourth-rounder Erick All to practice with the team after he passed his physical.

As Bengals fans know, All isn’t a typical fourth-rounder, though.

The Bengals considered All far, far above his No. 115 draft slot. A back surgery before a season-ending knee issue caused him to fall down the board and dashed upside that could have had him off the board potentially as high as the second round.

Seen as a long-term pick, All projected as a backup at best in 2024 while the tight end room belonged to Mike Gesicki, Drew Sample and Tanner Hudson.

And while the Bengals will bring him along slowly from here, the fact he’s cleared means All can start making his case right away.

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Bengals announce rookie deals with Jermaine Burton, Erick All

The Bengals have nearly signed their entire 2024 draft class.

The Cincinnati Bengals got two more draft picks under contract on Tuesday.

This time, the team announced that third-rounder Jermaine Burton and fourth-rounder Erick All had put ink to paper.

Burton, the hyped wide receiver, has already had some notable highlights in practice while working with Joe Burrow. The Bengals also happen to think they got a steal with TE 1 upside in All.

The Bengals now have eight of 10 draft picks under contract:

  • DT McKinnley Jackson
  • CB Josh Newton
  • TE Tanner McLachlan
  • S Daijahn Anthony
  • C Matt Lee
  • WR Jermaine Burton
  • TE Erick All
  • DE Cedric Johnson

That leaves first-rounder Amarius Mims and second-rounder Kris Jenkins as the only rookies yet to sign with the team, though both have been in the building.

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Bengals hope Erick All can ride Iowa TE wave like Kittle, LaPorta

The Bengals have huge hopes for Erick All.

By now, fans know all about the injury history around new Cincinnati Bengals tight end Erick All.

Plus, they know all about the huge upside and starter grade the team had on the fourth-round pick.

But what’s also interesting to hear is a name like George Kittle coming up in conversations around the pick.

Bengals area scout Christian Sarkisian, for example, talked about how comparisons from Big Ten sources to names like George Kittle caused him to dig deeper during scouting.

“They talk about him the same way they do all the other Iowa tight ends (Sam LaPorta, George Kittle, etc.),” Sarkisian said, according to Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic. “He was a captain at Michigan, he would have been a captain there if he were there longer. He was really the only offense on that Iowa team this year. He’s a dynamic playmaker, physical run blocker, we are getting a pretty darned polished player once we are ready to roll with him.”

No wonder, then, the Bengals ended up with such high grades on All and didn’t think they would even get him as late as they did in the draft

As suspected when viewing the pick right after it was made, with All, the Bengals see someone with massive TE1 upside, should he be able to overcome the recent medical hurdles.

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Bengals had starter grades on rookie TEs Erick All, Tanner McLachlan

The Bengals had high grades on both rookie TEs they drafted.

The Cincinnati Bengals have high hopes for the pair of tight ends they selected in the 2024 NFL draft.

That much the Bengals made clear with comments about fourth-rounder Erick All right after the draft ended.

But hearing the team talk about All and sixth-rounder Tanner McLachlan as spring work for rookies begins really hammers home the point.

“We had starter grades on Erick and we think McLachlan is an explosive, dynamic weapon in the pass game,” Potts said, according to Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com. “We think he can be a potential difference-maker going into the future. We were really glad with how the value played in the sixth round. We thought he was going to go higher than that.”

For now, both rookies very much sit behind new arrival Mike Gesicki, Drew Sample and Tanner Hudson on the depth chart. All could even start the year on the PUP, depending on the injury progress he’s made from the issues that dinged his stock in the first place.

Clearly, though, the team believes it might have two guys who can eventually sit at or near the top of the depth chart, with the climb starting right now.

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