CBS Sports Names Five Top Fits in Potential Trey Hendrickson Trade..
Cincinnati has not gotten an offer it likes for the star.
CINCINNATI — Trey Hendrickson is firmly back in the news this week, prompting CBS Sports writer Cody Benjamin to drop the top-five trade fits for the star Bengals pass rusher.
Unless there is an equally good player coming back in return (don’t count on it) then Cincinnati would be getting worse this coming season with any Hendrickson trade.
The top-five spots were Detroit, Washington, Green Bay, Indianapolis, and Arizona in that order.
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“The Lions addressed their offensive line early in the 2025 NFL Draft, also adding wide receiver depth,” Benjamin said about Detroit. “One area that went curiously overlooked: pass rusher, despite the team desperately needing the since-departed Za’Darius Smith to step in as an Aidan Hutchinson replacement last season. With more than $40 million in 2025 salary cap space still available, they could be a prime landing spot for a proven talent.”
It makes zero sense to trade Hendrickson if the top goal this coming season is to win the Super Bowl. There isn’t a realistic path to Cincinnati replacing his 17.5 sacks in full from the other players behind him.
No firm deadline is set to trade or get a deal done with the star edge rusher, whose first mandatory participation date this offseason approaches during minicamp from June 10-12.
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Trey Hendrickson standoff has Bengals fans rolling their eyes for one reason…
And tbh probably more than one reason.
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If there’s one team that’d rather concentrate on the schedule release than literally anything else right now, it’s the Bengals. During what’s supposed to be the quiet part of NFL team calendars, the Bengals have found themselves in headlines for all the wrong reasons this week after Trey Hendrickson’s … insightful? … press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
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So now, instead of cryptic pictures of pop-tarts and 90-second videos featuring memes from three years ago, the Bengals are dealing with a tiny little PR crisis featuring arguably the NFL’s best defensive player. But otherwise the offseason’s going pretty well!
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Speculation about why the Bengals refuse to sign Hendrickson to a long-term extension vary depending on who you ask, but this week, ESPN’s NFL reporter Dan Graziano took a stab at guessing what exactly is going wrong in Cincinnati, and how he sees it playing out. Get your most exasperated groan ready.
The Bengals are botching the Trey Hendrickson stuff in the most Bengals way possible
“The Bengals’ long-held rule was to guarantee no money outside of the first year — specifically, the signing bonus. They broke this rule for quarterback Joe Burrow a couple of years ago and broke it again this year for Chase and Higgins. I don’t know for a fact that future-year guarantees are the holdup in Hendrickson’s deal, but it’s a fair assumption to make based on what I’ve heard from sources.
And if you’re wondering why it would be a holdup for Hendrickson when it wasn’t for Burrow, Chase and Higgins, the answer is age. Burrow, Chase and Higgins were all 26 years old at the time of their contract extensions. Hendrickson is 30.”
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Well, I for one could have never guessed that something as obvious as a contract extension for the NFL’s sack leader this year simply boils down to a team owner and their outdated views on compensation. It’s amazing how this entire saga is framed as some complicated cap riddle when in actuality it really just comes down to the fact that an owner who historically hates writing checks is tired of writing checks. How out of character.
Ever since Myles Garrett pulled off one of the more convincing bluffs in recent memory earlier this offseason, it’s hard to say with any confidence that these press conferences and public statements mean a whole lot. But when Hendrickson is playing in Green Bay next year, let’s just all try our best to remember exactly why.
