{"id":97145,"date":"2025-06-02T03:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97145\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T03:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:02:14","slug":"bengals-mike-gesicki-sounds-poised-for-a-leap-in-joe-burrows-offense-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97145\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals&#8217; Mike Gesicki sounds poised for a leap in Joe Burrow&#8217;s offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>\u00a0tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/03\/02\/bengals-focused-key-free-agent-not-named-tee-higgins\/81054977007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Gesicki went from being a little surprised<\/a> he was mentioned by Joe Burrow alongside Ja&#8217;Marr Chase and Tee Higgins to signing a new deal with the team to give him some of his first serious consistency as a pro.<\/p>\n<p>Before 2024, Gesicki had been mildly infamous for never getting a stable head coach or quarterback situation during his stops around the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Now? That&#8217;s all changed. Gesicki says the impact has been felt as early as these OTAs sessions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the biggest thing is now that I&#8217;m in the same system, I&#8217;m not worrying about myself as much,&#8221; Gesicki told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/news\/mike-gesicki-springs-into-second-bengals-season-quick-hits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Hobson<\/a> of <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>.com. &#8220;I can concentrate on the defense more, and knowing Joe, I know I&#8217;m going to get that freedom out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/05\/28\/bengals-udfa-turning-heads-otas-jordan-moore\/83904351007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals UDFA is already turning heads at OTAs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Bengals brought on Gesicki one offseason ago, they too struggled with consistency at his position after the brief C.J. Uzomah era ended. While there was always a chance Gesicki was going to be the latest Joe Burrow-fed tight end to make bank elsewhere, the <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/03\/08\/bengals-sign-mike-gesicki-before-free-agency\/82052349007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals paid up to secure this exact type of consistency<\/a> for both him and Burrow&#8217;s offense.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, observant onlookers will point out that Gesicki is more of a big slot receiver and that&#8217;s why they liked the breakout from rookie Erick All so much last year before his injury. But either way, another year in the same system should mean fewer early-season struggles and perhaps more wrinkles to the offense than a season ago, too.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/05\/29\/cincinnati-bengals-players-missing-otas-list-training-camp\/83917755007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals players missing OTAs list ahead of training camp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Bengals\u00a0tight end Mike Gesicki went from being a little surprised he was mentioned by Joe Burrow alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,18945,1458,18721,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-97145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-gesicki","14":"tag-mike","15":"tag-mike-gesicki","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114611548743477759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97145","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=97145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}