{"id":117833,"date":"2025-06-10T04:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/117833\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T04:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:46:18","slug":"bengals-trade-failure-means-shocking-cut-of-defensive-star-germaine-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/117833\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Trade Failure Means Shocking Cut Of Defensive Star Germaine Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bengals Trade Failure Means Shocking Cut Of Defensive Star Germaine Pratt<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trey Hendrickson, you are not alone.<\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Bengals entered this offseason with a number of very good players that they have to pay on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n

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Or …<\/p>\n

Not pay.<\/p>\n

But having that many stars means a team migth have to pick and choose which ones they pay and which ones they have to let go.<\/p>\n

And now we have confirmation of the speculation … as the Bengals are indeed going to release star linebacker\u00a0Germaine Pratt.<\/p>\n

Pratt has requested a trade in the past, but the team failed to find one that fit.<\/p>\n

Pratt has been a standout for the Bengals, especially this past season, where it was a bit of a surprise to some that he was not named a Pro Bowler. He finished the year with 143 total tackles, which tied him for 10th in the NFL.<\/p>\n

He was also able to showcase his versatility by getting to the quarterback with five QB hits, as well as his ball-hawk skills with two interceptions.<\/p>\n

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And he’s a team captain.<\/p>\n

The Bengals – who with this move will save $5.6 million in 2025 cap space – have\u00a0also showed hesitancy in paying another one of their defensive players in edge rusher Hendrickson.<\/p>\n

The team allowed the eighth-most yards this past season, so it might be time for them to reset and rebuild that side of the ball from the ground up.<\/p>\n

Whichever team decides to sign Pratt will be getting one of the best tackles in the league … while the Bengals will be turning their attention back to figuring out what to do with Hendrickson in a market that suggests he might deserve $30 million APY.<\/p>\n

Related: Bengals Accused Of Lying By Trey Hendrickson<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengals Trade Failure Means Shocking Cut Of Defensive Star Germaine Pratt originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Trey Hendrickson,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,2977,6,2975,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-117833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-germaine-pratt","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-the-bengals","16":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114657256150143223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}