Trey Hendrickson Update

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(8 hours ago)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: Yes, I realize he agreed to a contract, but he's been in the top sack leaders in the NFL for 3 yrs, so he deserves a productivity bonus at the very least.  Cutting Pratt and reducing Volson's money should allow us plenty of room to get this done.  We have almost $32-M in cap space.  Katie Blackburn offered him $28-M, that's a $10M raise on an extension, but he wants a multi-year guarantee.  He's 31, so Father Time is catching up with him in NFL years, so I guess this is the impasse.

Offer him a guaranteed 28M for 2 years, with a likely-to-be-earned bonus of $5M to be in the top NFL sack leaders with a minimum of 14-sacks. We can afford the cap hit, but if he doesn't produce, then the $5M bonus gets rolled into next year's cap space.  That still leaves us with $17M in cap space and gives him an incentive to produce at a higher level. 

28 million is a 12 million dollar raise as his guaranteed base is 15.6 million. He was already paid the rest of the cap hit in 2022 signing bonus.

I am not saying he is not worth it, but the question becomes ho much in 2025 to get him to sign an extension for 2026 and possibly 2027.