The Cincinnati Bengals finally got Trey Hendrickson back when the star pass rusher agreed to a one-year deal that gives him $14 million more in salary this year.
That’s a lot of money. But it doesn’t give Hendrickson any security beyond this season.
And next year, Hendrickson will be in his age 32 season, hardly the time to get a multi-year deal with a lot of guaranteed money, even though he’s shown no signs of slowing down.
Still, apparently Hendrickson would rather live with that risk than sign a long-term deal that didn’t guarantee him anything beyond the season.
So after all that drama, Hendrickson is kinda back where he started: under contract for one (last?) year.
It would seem that Katie Blackburn and company got exactly what they wanted: one more shot at a championship with an elite pass rusher minus the stress of potentially making a bad investment long-term.
And remember that Shemar Stewart said during his negotiations that the Bengals’ front office cares more about winning arguments than winning games.
Is that what happened here?
