Sep. 5—Albuquerque's Zach Gentry isn't out of the NFL just yet.
The Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday announced they have signed the Eldorado High graduate and former Pittsburgh Steelers tight end to its 16-man practice squad.
Gentry and three other former area high school standouts — Manzano's Jordan Byrd (Steelers), and Rio Rancho High School's Keshawn Banks (Green Bay Packers) and Grant Hermanns (New York Jets) — were casualties of last week's NFL cutdown day when the league's 32 teams had to trim official rosters to 53 players.
Banks, a rookie linebacker who has not played in the NFL yet and who graduated from San Diego State University along with Byrd last year, was added last week to the Packers' practice squad.