Trey Hendrickson Update

[SunsetBengal]

(5 hours ago)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Bingo. That's what the guys on twitter who are usually right, deduced as well (me too: a lot of, "my family needs to be taken care of," and not a lot of, "I'm underpaid," type of talk in his interview).

The optics are bad on both sides and both sides dropped the ball: the initial ball-dropping was on his agent, the follow-up is on both of them.

I hate it when accomplished players, who have already made a handsome fortune in their lifetime resort to the "my family needs to be taken care of" line. While he's definitely not making what his stats would reflect, he's made more than 99% people in World will ever make, already. I wish he would just stick to the business line of "I've outplayed my salary, I've earned a raise". It's honest, to the point, and includes no phony heart strings.

Yes, the optics of this situation are horrible. The team bent over backwards to make a WR that's only available 71% of the time the past two seasons very wealthy, and he hasn't even touched 1,000 yards the past two seasons, let alone led the league twice in a very coveted statistical category. This part is pure speculation on my part, but I'm guessing that the Bengals only want to extend for one year and Trey would prefer a 3 year extension. Seems like a fair compromise would be a 2 year extension, giving him 3 more years total with the Bengals. He could retire as a Bengal and be filthy rich for the rest of his lifetime.