.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Team WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell returned to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer season of 2022. She left the firm in 2019 after participating in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a grad of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, and she has actually covered the NFL because 2013. You can adhere to Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints safety and security and also ALS supporter Steve Gleason is actually dependable and also recuperating at a local hospital after a medical celebration previously today, according to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett claimed Gleason spiked a high temperature as well as had extremely reduced blood pressure Wednesday, urging his medical doctor to recommend he be needed to a hospital.However, this desired Storm Francine, a Type 2 hurricane, created landfall near Morgan Urban area, Louisiana, along with continual winds of virtually one hundred mph. Nearly 390,000 individuals across Louisiana lost power, and also New Orleans and also neighboring areas experienced some road flooding.Durrett said there was a worry that ambulance as well as very first responders would certainly not manage to get to Gleason, but "the good news is, they made it by means of to him at once when Steve's health was actually deteriorating."" They quickly stabilized him and carried him to Ochsner," Durrett said. "He continues to be there and steady. He is actually continuing to be managed, and also our company are actually confident Steve will do what Steve does and also enthusiast by means of to get home as rapidly as achievable." Gleason's official X profile submitted an upgrade Thursday early morning giving thanks to the very first -responders as well as the hospital for looking after Gleason.Gleason was actually identified with ALS, for which there is currently no treatment, in 2011 and right now inhales through a ventilator. He communicates utilizing his eyes via a focused tablet connected to his wheelchair.Gleason's crew uploaded a message coming from him Friday: "ALS is actually a cyclone of a condition. As well as on 9/11 in the middle of Storm Francine, energy blackouts & sketchy phone company, hurricane ALS created landfall. Thanks for the powerful passion as well as assistance from every one of you. Commemorate this opportunity to be alive as well as breathing. I adore yall - SG." An information coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Impossible" (@SteveGleason) September 13, 2024 Gleason, a former Saints exclusive teams leader who participated in 7 periods for New Orleans, is actually most known on the industry for his blocked punting versus the Atlanta georgia Falcons in the Saints' 1st activity back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 observing Cyclone Katrina. He is right now an advocate for ALS recognition and works using his not-for-profit Staff Gleason to deliver modern technology, devices and also support companies to others living with ALS.He was the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Guts Award in July. He as well as co-writer Jeff Duncan also recently posted Gleason's memoir "A Life Inconceivable," which Gleason created utilizing his eyes.