From Kyle Winn (@ProInSomething):
From Randy Hollingsworth (@RandyHollings13):
From Adam Peters Dynasty (@Stephenrosssti1):
As Kyle, Randy and AP Dynasty show you here, there was no shortage of Trey Hendrickson questions in the mailbag, so I figured this was a good place to reset the situation.
Hendrickson’s first contract grumbles came two years ago. During the COVID-19-impacted offseason of 2021, he signed a four-year, $60 million deal to leave the New Orleans Saints for the Cincinnati Bengals—a good deal in a depressed market, but one that wouldn’t age well for him. After 22 sacks in his first two seasons in Cincinnati, he sought a correction and got a one-year, $21 million extension as a Band-Aid just before camp in ’23. After a 17.5-sack season that fall, he looked for another one, and didn’t get it. He had 17.5 sacks again last year. And here we are.
Basically, what all that adds up to is a guy who probably won’t be lining up to take any kind of hometown discount. In fact, it’s no sure thing that he’d even play on his existing contract when push comes to shove and we get closer to real games being played.
So where would he want to be paid? It may be hard for Hendrickson to argue he should change the market like Myles Garrett and Nick Bosa did, but he’d certainly be within his rights to ask for a deal commensurate with what Danielle Hunter and Maxx Crosby got, given that both those guys are deeper into their careers and still got market corrections. Both, by the way, are over $35 million in APY on their new deals, so I’m not sure, Kyle, that your proposal of $90 million over three years works.
