.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell returned to ESPN to deal with the New Orleans Saints in the summertime of 2022. She left behind the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, and also she has actually covered the NFL due to the fact that 2013. You may comply with Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints protection and ALS supporter Steve Gleason is steady and also recouping at a neighborhood medical center after a health care activity earlier this week, depending on to his public relations consultant Clare Durrett.Durrett stated Gleason spiked a fever and also had remarkably low high blood pressure Wednesday, prompting his medical doctor to advise he be actually taken to a hospital.However, this desired Typhoon Francine, a Type 2 storm, created landfall near Morgan Area, Louisiana, with sustained winds of just about one hundred miles per hour. Virtually 390,000 citizens across Louisiana lost power, and New Orleans and also encompassing places experienced some street flooding.Durrett mentioned there was an issue that EMS and also very first responders would not be able to hit Gleason, but "thankfully, they made it with to him at a time when Steve's wellness was degrading."" They immediately supported him as well as transported him to Ochsner," Durrett stated. "He remains there as well as steady. He is actually continuing to be actually handled, and also our company are confident Steve will certainly perform what Steve does and also fighter with to acquire home as swiftly as feasible." Gleason's authorities X account posted an update Thursday early morning saying thanks to the first responders and the medical facility for dealing with Gleason.Gleason was actually detected along with ALS, for which there is currently no remedy, in 2011 and right now breathes by means of a ventilator. He communicates utilizing his eyes using a focused tablet computer attached to his wheelchair.Gleason's group posted a notification coming from him Friday: "ALS is a typhoon of a disease. As well as on 9/11 in the midst of Typhoon Francine, power blackouts & sketchy phone service, hurricane ALS created landfall. Thank you for the highly effective love and assistance coming from each one of you. Commemorate this opportunity to be alive as well as breathing. I love yall - SG." A message coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Live Difficult" (@SteveGleason) September 13, 2024 Gleason, a previous Saints exclusive groups captain that played 7 times for New Orleans, is most known on the field for his obstructed punting against the Atlanta georgia Falcons in the Saints' very first activity back after the Superdome reopened in 2006 complying with Typhoon Katrina. He is now an advocate for ALS understanding and also works through his nonprofit Crew Gleason to provide innovation, tools and also assistance companies to others coping with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Nerve Honor in July. He and co-writer Jeff Duncan likewise lately posted Gleason's memoir "A Life Inconceivable," which Gleason wrote utilizing his eyes.