{"id":203526,"date":"2025-07-13T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/203526\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:08:12","slug":"mike-gesicki-doesnt-get-national-lovenot-that-bengals-will-complain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/203526\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Gesicki doesn\u2019t get national love\u2026not that Bengals will complain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> and quarterback Joe Burrow were low-key thrilled to get tight end Mike Gesicki back this offseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati keeping Gesicki from leaving via free agency marked the first time Burrow enjoyed some notable consistency at the tight end position in the offense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hence, <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/06\/01\/bengals-mike-gesicki-sounds-poised-for-a-leap-in-joe-burrows-offense\/83966420007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burrow mentioning Gesicki right alongside names such as Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins<\/a> as offseason moves the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bengals<\/a> needed to make.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Gesicki doesn\u2019t show up at all in the annual tight end rankings from ESPN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45530874\/ranking-nfl-top-10-tight-ends-2025-execs-coaches-scouts-make-their-picks-best-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Fowler<\/a>, who polled NFL personnel league-wide to come up with the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/06\/30\/cincinnati-bengals-53-man-roster-projection-2025-offseason\/84413992007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; 53-man roster projection following 2025 offseason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that the Bengals will complain. In fact, they\u2019ll probably outright disagree that Gesicki doesn\u2019t deserve to be named one of the top 20 players at his position in the league, if including the \u201chonorable mentions\u201d and \u201calso getting votes\u201d sections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured the 29-year-old Gesicki isn\u2019t sweating it, either. He just had his most receiving yards in a season since 2021 with 665 and scored twice despite being the third option in the passing attack. If he can build on that after finally getting some continuity of his own, perhaps he shows up on lists like this next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/07\/01\/bengals-joe-burrow-feelings-trey-hendrickson-contract-standoff-revealed\/84428163007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Burrow feelings on Trey Hendrickson contract standoff revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals and quarterback Joe Burrow were low-key thrilled to get tight end Mike Gesicki back this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[247,265,228,1574,227,256,2296,12,388,7,18945,2341,8886,20842,379,1573,1577,1458,18721,248,267,88,6,35196,9,266,8885,2978,2340,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-203526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-burrow","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-espn","16":"tag-espn-inc","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-gesicki","19":"tag-hendrickson","20":"tag-higgins","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-inc","23":"tag-joe","24":"tag-joe-burrow","25":"tag-mike","26":"tag-mike-gesicki","27":"tag-national","28":"tag-national-sports","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-nfl-hub","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-tee","35":"tag-tee-higgins","36":"tag-trey","37":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114845143229944761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}