Little by little, more continues to emerge about the standoff between the Cincinnati Bengals and disgruntled defensive end Trey Hendrickson.
In the wake of the Bengals-Hendrickson beef going super public, one report offered up an insider’s look at the situation.
Now, another, courtesy of Ari Meirov on “The Spotlight” this Thursday.
There, in short, Meirov says Hendrickson doesn’t feel that the communication from the Bengals had been good enough. Meirov suggests he wants roughly in the $34-35 million per-year range and for it to be a true extension, not a one-year pact or multi-year deal laced with incentives.
At least from this report, the Bengals haven’t come close to the market rate in that range on offers just yet. That’s not uncommon for a negotiation, though.
What’s unusual from this report is that the Bengals allegedly haven’t engaged with Hendrickson through top names like Duke Tobin, Troy Blackburn, etc. While the big brass indeed handled contracts for Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, it’s apparently the second and third levels of the organization working on Hendrickson’s situation.
If true, that’s simply not how the Bengals should be handling things when the conversation is the NFL’s sack leader, an elite overall player and perhaps the best free-agent signing in franchise history.
Maybe that changes now. But it should have never been the case and would certainly explain Hendrickson taking such issue with the word “respect” being thrown around recently.
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