Trey Hendrickson Update

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(7 hours ago)Luvnit2 Wrote: Help me understand that we used a lot of Tee and Chase cap hits and guaranteed money hits in 2025 is an issue. We did that and still have the 8th most cap room. We have Trey under contract for 2025 also and his 15.9 million on the books. 

Our of the 32 milliion, we have 2 rookie contracts (8 million cap hit), 2 extra 51 man roster spots or 2 million + 16 practicd squad players for 5 to 6 million. So, we have a minimum of 16 million to etnd Trey in 2025 and still carry over cap for 2025 to 2026.

They had a plan for the money not just for 2025, but also 2026 and beyond. They had no plan to spend money on things you and I agree like anoth vert guard or safety. You want to say it is due to cap money, I disagree and say the feel OK with the rookie drafted and signing Patrick and hope Volson takes a step forward. The must like the safeties or feel none availble fit Golden's scheme.

They have plenty of cap money to put his entire raise (bonus) for 2025 into the 2025 cap so not sure why you keep beating the drum they striuctured the deal stopped them from doing more if they wanted to do more.

As for your examples, Vikings got a great cap hit with Jefferson in years one and 2, but he is guaranteed a ton of money and eventually the cap hit comes. They better hope he does not tear hs knee up or they will be eating dead cap and tons of it. There is good and bad to everything. I have also hoped we would get more agrressive like the Ravens or others, but only if the plan is to get that one great player to put us over the top, not just to spen money.

Also, just a tidbit, they could give Trey an extension that includes and 12 million dollar signing bonus and if afraid of the 2025 cap can put 100% in later years if they extend him 1 or 2 years. So, in essence they need no cap money in 2025 to extend Trey.

I, for one, was hoping they would have been more active in FA this past year, signing a better OG instead of Patrick and a different DE to replace Hubbard.

I personally wanted James Daniels instead of Lucas Patrick (or could have added LP as well, just not as a planned contender to start).
Daniels is just as versatile as LP, showing ability to play all IOL spots between college and NFL.
He signed for just 3 years, $24 mill with just $10.75 mill guaranteed.
That could have been swung easily in hindsight seeing how much cap the Bengals ended up having.

I also wanted Chase Young as a Hubbard replacement/insurance if Hendrickson leaves. CY opposite TH would have been arguably a (big) improvement over the question marks they have now.
Young signed for just 3 years, $51 mill with $33 mill guaranteed.
Bengals could have done that instead of using a draft pick on Stewart, instead putting that toward another position like a pass-rushing DT in Derrick Harmon or SAF to replace Stone after this season.

But now we see all this cap sitting around waiting for the Bengals to do something with it, hoping at this point it goes toward Hendrickson because why else did they hold onto it instead of using it to fill out the team better in FA?