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.
So far…✅ #Bengals https://t.co/13q9160fc0
— Louis Riddick (@LRiddickESPN) August 23, 2024
