BREAKING: Bengals give Trey Hendrickson permission to be traded

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(03-07-2025, 07:30 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: When I listed the previous years, those were those players CAREERS of reaching 10+ sacks. So 2022 was 3 seasons of attempts at reaching 10 from each and still only that few.

Not a single player in 2022 or 2023 reached 10 sacks in their rookie season.

So yeah, there hasn't been a 10-sack rookie since Parsons in 2021.


You have that feeling because Tee missed the first 2 weeks of the season where the offense has been horrible regardless of him being there or not the previous 4 years WITH him.

When he missed that 3 game stretch the Bengals averaged almost 31 points per game without him. 


It would also erase any chance he ever has of getting a final large payday in his career because he would be heading into FA going into his age 33 season. 

He'd lose a huge amount of money taking that deal. Heck, he already lost money taking that previous 1-year extension.

Plus "plans" on tagging is not actual guarantees. They can just not tag him at any time if he breaks both his legs and he gets nothing.

He would lose a lot of money being tagged?
The tag is a lot.
If he's tagged a second time, it's even better.
He'd get an extra near $50+ mill if tagged twice.
And it would essentially be fully guaranteed without the Bengals having to put all that into escrow in 2025.

At the end of the day though, he technically doesn't have a choice.
Bengals don't HAVE to trade him this year.
They can choose to tag him next year, even twice if they wanted.
The only thing Hendrickson can choose to do is retire really, but that literally takes money off the table for him.
Given his age and position he plays, he can't take a year off refusing to play.