{"id":156902,"date":"2025-06-25T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/156902\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:28:11","slug":"panthers-named-perfect-landing-spot-for-bengals-de-trey-hendrickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/156902\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers named ‘perfect landing spot’ for Bengals DE Trey Hendrickson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should the Carolina Panthers<\/a> make Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> defensive end Trey Hendrickson trade in his stripes?<\/p>\n

That’s a scenario that makes sense to FOX Sports reporter David Helman, who recently named<\/a> the “perfect” landing spots for each of this spring’s minicamp holdouts. And with Hendrickson still waiting on the Bengals to offer up a new contract extension, Helman links 2024’s top sack artist to the other “Queen City.”<\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

Carolina doesn\u2019t currently fit the mold of a contender that a 30-year-old All-Pro like Hendrickson would likely want to play for, but that\u2019s the risk of asking for a trade. Maybe he and the Bengals can still reach an agreement on a new contract. But if not, maybe he can help the Panthers navigate the type of impressive turnaround he was part of in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Hendrickson recorded an NFL-high 17.5 sacks this past season, 3.5 more than the next closest player. He also notched career-bests with 46 combined tackles and six passes defensed, so it’s no wonder why the now-four-time Pro Bowler is seeking out a fresh deal.<\/p>\n

But would Carolina be willing to give Hendrickson that, as well as the compensation to acquire him?<\/p>\n

That might be a tough ask for the Panthers, who have already invested quite a bit of resources into their pass-rushing department this offseason. In addition to signing<\/a> former Minnesota Viking Pat Jones II to a two-year, $20 million deal out of free agency, the team used<\/a> their second- and third-round picks of the 2025 NFL draft on Texas A&M’s Nic Scourton and Ole Miss<\/a>‘ Princely Umanmielen.<\/p>\n

With the 26-year-old Jones and the two promising rookies in tow, the organization seems intent on letting their youth movement play out. (That may have already been evident by their release<\/a> of 32-year-old Jadeveon Clowney, even despite his relatively solid 2024 campaign.)<\/p>\n

So as crazy as it sounds, there may be no room on Carolina’s current timeline for the NFL’s leading sack-getter.<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should the Carolina Panthers make Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson trade in his stripes? That’s a scenario…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[247,265,228,235,260,2567,227,256,4885,7,863,875,2341,20842,4884,4893,1575,1578,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,236,1576,9,266,2340,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-156902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-carolina","12":"tag-carolina-panthers","13":"tag-carolinapanthers","14":"tag-cincinnati","15":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","16":"tag-clowney","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-fox","19":"tag-fox-sports","20":"tag-hendrickson","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-jadeveon","23":"tag-jadeveon-clowney","24":"tag-mississippi","25":"tag-mississippi-rebels-football","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-neutral","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-nfl-hub","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-neutral","34":"tag-panthers","35":"tag-rebels","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-sports-news","38":"tag-trey","39":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114743063992154461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156902","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=156902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}