{"id":718642,"date":"2026-06-22T05:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718642\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:33:15","slug":"bengals-were-tight-end-jack-endries-top-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718642\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals were tight end Jack Endries \u2018top location\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> are hoping they found a steal when they nabbed Texas tight end Jack Endries in the seventh round. He was projected to go much sooner on Day 3, but projections are just that after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It does sound like Endries at least ended up in a place he was hoping for, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThis was definitely my top location,\u201d Endries told Dan Hoard. \u201cI wanted to play for Coach (James) Casey, so I\u2019m really happy that I got here and can learn here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Bengals have lacked continuity at the tight end position during quarterback Joe Burrow\u2019s tenure with the team. Burrow has only had two tight ends stick around for more than a single season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Endries could quite easily be the heir apparent to Mike Gesicki, who will be 31 in October and is only signed through 2027. Endries isn\u2019t exactly built like Gesicki, but he has that same versatility in where he can line up, maybe even more so than Gesicki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Erick All also doesn\u2019t factor into the conversation about Endries and Gesicki. All plays the same role Noah Fant did last season as a movable in-line tight end who is a plus blocker. Anything he provides as a pass catcher is just gravy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Endries could easily benefit from sitting behind a guy like Gesicki and slowly growing into a role over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Morale of the story, it isn\u2019t always about how high you go in the draft. It is sometimes more about who you go to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals are hoping they found a steal when they nabbed Texas tight end Jack Endries in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[20939,349,99],"class_list":["post-718642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}