Last 12 months, the Bengals gave defensive finish Trey Hendrickson a one-year extension with $21 million in new cash. This 12 months, Hendrickson desires a brand new contract or a commerce.
To no shock, the Bengals aren’t inclined to commerce him.
Via Paul Dehner Jr. of TheAthletic.com, the Bengals have “zero interest” in buying and selling Hendrickson to a brand new staff.
Whether they’ll modify his contract is one other situation. He’s attributable to make $14.8 million in 2024 and $15.8 million in 2025. That’s beneath half of the present market, and he had 17.5 sacks in 2023.
Some would say his agent ought to have finished a greater job with final 12 months’s negotiation. And whereas that is perhaps true, the participant isn’t completely satisfied. And the scenario is out of whack. The Bengals ought to think about fixing it.
Hendrickson supposedly is contemplating retiring. While that may work with different groups, we’ve seen this film earlier than in Cincinnati. With quarterback Carson Palmer. If Jason Campbell doesn’t break a collarbone two days earlier than the 2011 commerce deadline, Palmer may nonetheless be on the Bengals’ reserve-retired record.
And, sure, no new deal might be finished till the one-year anniversary of his final one. That’s simply three months away. If the Bengals made the wink-nod dedication now to do the deal later, that might absolutely be ok for Hendrickson.
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