NFL Insider Tom Pelissero: How Long Trey Hendrickson’s Bengals Beef Could Last | The Rich Eisen Show

So you have the Bengals here who have the Shamar Stewart thing hanging over their head. They wrote the check for Jamar Chase. Before that they had written checks for Joe Burrow and Orlando Brown. Brown coming from Kansas City. That had been a big check in free agency a couple of years ago as well. T. Higgins got that deal. Um it’s not as much guaranteed beyond year one as I think a lot of people think. But regardless, they wrote a check. They signed both those guys. They denied all the skeptics there and they got those deals done. Mike Bride is not one to just like open up the cash spigot and say, “Hey, here’s more cash for all of you, Trey Hendrickson included.” He is one to tell you, “Hey, I have a deal and you have a contract and you’re going to show up and you’re going to play.” So, I guess my question is, if the league doesn’t, whether it’s fair or not see Trey Hendrickson the same way they see TJ Watt, and some of that is media creation, and the Steelers everything with that, I get that. And we’re past the draft to your point. So, a deal right now doesn’t seem likely. doesn’t help the Bengals this year. Is there a scenario in which Trey Hendrickson goes Carson Palmer where Trey Hendrickson goes, you know what, I I am the latest in the line of Bengals bigname guys who later in their career, throw Andrew Witworth in there as well. He eventually sucked it up and then he went to LA and he wrote the next chapter in his career. But is Trey Hendrickson the guy Tom Pelisero to go, you know what, I am willing to sit at home? He’s already said he’s not playing on this contract. Yeah, he said that directly when he showed up in May to an open to the media practice, walked onto the practice field dressed in like khakis and a polo shirt and said, “I’m I’m not coming in for that.” So, I do not anticipate. Listen, all these things are fluid, Andrew. We we’ve seen things that seem to be going one way and then they all of a sudden the pendulum swings back. I do not believe without a new contract that Trey Henderson is reporting. I think they’re next Tuesday report date for the veterans. I don’t think that he is there throughout the course of the preseason without a new contract at least up until the point that he would need to play. And it would not surprise me. I’m not saying this is going to happen. I’m not putting words in Trey Hendrickson’s mouth cuz I am absolutely certain that more words will come out of Trey Hendrickson’s mouth if it keeps going on like this. But I I would absolutely not be surprised if he sits out games. Um you know, you’re talking about missing a million dollars per game check, but you’re also talking about a guy who this is his time to get one more really big bite at the apple. Um he he’s determined to get that. So stay tuned on the Trey Hendrickson situation. It has not seemed like this was a deal that was like impossible to do. They’re not on completely different pages in terms of like what the money would be, but the Bengals have not moved the way that Trader would want to move. We know what he wants. He’s said it publicly, Andrew. He wants a multi-year extension. He wants a multi-year commitment from the Bengals after that one-year extension he did a couple years ago. He doesn’t want to go down that road again. He doesn’t want to kick the can and have to address this again in 2026. The Bengals are saying, “This is what we are willing to do.” Eventually, somebody has to blink. And I don’t anticipate that at least in the next few days here it’s going to be Trey Henderson. All right. Catch the Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from 12 to 3:00 p.m.

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7 comments

  2. Is there a reason he can't show up and just give 50% effort protecting himself from injury and just move on next year without losing any money from this year?

  4. My prediction is Trey is going to end up sitting out some regular season games. Normally when the Bengals draft a position in the first round, history shows their intention is to use that player to replace a current aging veteran on the team (not to actually improve the team like other teams do). So I am guessing they actually expect Trey to play out his current contract and then hit free agency. They have done this with other veteran players over the years. From what I know, Trey HAS to actually play at least 8 games for his contract to count for the year, so I am sure the Bengals actually think they have the leverage here. This is not being pessimistic. This is based on real history of how Mike Brown does things.

  7. he will play. he's 30 years old and he is a fool if he doesn't. nobody is giving up a first round pick also. he only has maybe two years of highly productive years. they have him under contract. he's stuck.

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