.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Workers WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell returned to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summertime of 2022. She left the firm in 2019 after participating in 2016 to deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a grad of LSU as well as a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, as well as she has actually dealt with the NFL since 2013. You can easily adhere to Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints security as well as ALS advocate Steve Gleason is steady and recovering at a local area healthcare facility after a health care celebration earlier today, according to his public relations consultant Clare Durrett.Durrett pointed out Gleason increased a high temperature and also had very reduced blood pressure Wednesday, motivating his medical professional to suggest he be needed to a hospital.However, this was after Storm Francine, a Group 2 tornado, created landfall near Morgan City, Louisiana, with sustained winds of nearly one hundred miles per hour. Nearly 390,000 individuals throughout Louisiana died, and New Orleans as well as encompassing places experienced some street flooding.Durrett pointed out there was a worry that ambulance and also first -responders would not have the ability to reach Gleason, but "thankfully, they made it via to him each time when Steve's wellness was degrading."" They instantly maintained him as well as transferred him to Ochsner," Durrett said. "He continues to be there as well as dependable. He is actually remaining to be actually managed, as well as our team are actually confident Steve will certainly perform what Steve carries out and warrior by means of to acquire home as swiftly as achievable." Gleason's official X account posted an upgrade Thursday morning thanking the first responders and the hospital for looking after Gleason.Gleason was detected with ALS, for which there is actually currently no cure, in 2011 and also now breathes via a ventilator. He interacts using his eyes using a focused tablet computer attached to his wheelchair.Gleason's crew uploaded a message from him Friday: "ALS is actually a typhoon of an illness. As well as on 9/11 in the midst of Hurricane Francine, power failures & sketchy phone service, storm ALS made landfall. Thanks for the powerful affection as well as support coming from each of you. Commemorate this odds to be alive and also breathing. I enjoy yall - SG." A notification coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Impossible" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a past Saints unique crews leader who participated in seven periods for New Orleans, is very most understood on the field for his blocked out punting versus the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' very first video game back after the Superdome reopened in 2006 following Cyclone Katrina. He is actually currently a proponent for ALS recognition and operates via his non-profit Team Gleason to provide technology, devices and also support services to others coping with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Nerve Award in July. He and also co-writer Jeff Duncan likewise just recently posted Gleason's narrative "A Life Inconceivable," which Gleason wrote utilizing his eyes.