Cethan Carter

BIOGRAPHY

Cethan Carter was born on November 5, 1993, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL.

He played college football at Nebraska. Carter played high school football at Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie, Louisiana. While at Archbishop Rummel, he spent time lining up at the tight end, H-back and fullback. He caught 23 passes for 418 yards and 5 touchdowns his senior year in 2012, earning Honorable Mention All-State honors. Rummell had a 14–0 record and won the Louisiana Class 5A state championship in 2012. He also played basketball at Rummell, helping the team to a 21–11 record and a state quarterfinals appearance in 2012.

Carter played for the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 2013 to 2016. He was a criminology and criminal justice major at Nebraska. He played in 13 games, starting 6, in 2013 and caught 10 passes for 127 yards. Carter was named a True Freshman All-American by 247Sports in 2013. He also earned BigTen Honorable Mention All-Freshman honors. He played in 9 games, starting 8, in 2014, catching 6 passes for 98 yards and 1 touchdown. He then played in, and started, the final 11 games of the season, catching 24 passes for 329 yards and 2 touchdowns.

He also rushed twice for 48 yards and a 32-yard rushing touchdown in 2015, becoming the first tight end in school history to score a rushing touchdown. Carter was named Honorable Mention All-Big Ten by the media in 2015. He played in 10 games, all starts in 2016, catching 19 passes for 190 yards and 1 touchdown. He also rushed three times for 34 yards. He was named Honorable Mention All-Big Ten by both the media and coaches in 2016.

He played in 43 games, starting 35, during his college career, catching 59 passes for 744 yards and 4 touchdowns. His 59 receptions ranked fifth all-time in school history for a tight end. He also rushed 5 times for 84 yards and 1 touchdown. Carter was rated the 16th best tight end in the 2017 NFL Draft by NFLDraftScout.com. Lance Zierlein of NFL.com predicted that he would go undrafted and sign as a priority free agent.

In 2017, he signed with Bengals in May as a CFA and successfully made the roster out of training camp. He played in all 16 Bengals games, finishing third on the team with nine special teams tackles (seven solos), and saw action as the team’s primary H-B in Games 5-7, when starter Ryan Hewitt was out with a knee injury.