Trey Hendrickson Update

[Bengalbug]

(Yesterday, 09:03 AM)R3stangs Wrote: Shouldn't it be? He wants right now to be paid as he's performing yet in the future he wants to be guaranteed to be paid the same if he not performing at the same level. Where does that make sense of a business to take that on?

Right, you don’t “reward” for part performance in the NFL. You pay for future performance, which is why the Trey Hendrickson FA acquisition positioned them nicely. It’s not “being cheap”.

Older players are more likely to get injured and, even without injury, decline as they age. For DE, the cliffs are after 7 seasons and then again after 9. Trey missed the 7 year cliff, which with last year being year 8. He will almost certainly (outside of injury) have a good to great 2025 campaign. But as I said, if he starts the decline that almost every DE in league history has, any contract extension will age poorly.

I predict the watt contract ages badly, the Garrett contract ages ok. But Myles Garrett is also one of the best DE’s of all time. He is just built different, kind of like Julius peppers. Speaking of peppers, he never had more than 11.5 sacks/season after his age 29. But he brought a lot to the run game support.

I understand Treys position, from his standpoint. I also understand the Bengals. It would be interesting if they could craft the contract to somehow give them some relief, and him some incentives… based on production. A mutually beneficial contract.

The one thing that we need to keep in mind is the lack of wear and tear on Trey his first 3 years in the league. He played more defensive snaps last year alone (825), than he did his first 3 (820).