{"id":242088,"date":"2025-07-28T06:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242088\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:42:13","slug":"how-trey-hendrickson-bengals-contract-standoff-impacts-two-important-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242088\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trey Hendrickson-Bengals contract standoff impacts two important people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contract standoff between Shemar Stewart and the Cincinnati Bengals came to an end Friday, as the pass rusher agreed to a four-year, fully guaranteed deal worth $18.97 million, according to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter. Moreover, the report mentions that the deal also includes a $10.4 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the contract situation is all settled for Stewart, the focus shifts to what he can provide on the field. The jury is still out on the Bengals selecting the 21-year-old, who recorded 4.5 sacks during his three seasons at Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, ESPN\u2019s Louis Riddick believes the Cincinnati Bengals aren\u2019t setting Shemar Stewart up for success because of how they\u2019re handling the contract standoff with Trey Hendrickson. Of all the players who could help Stewart adjust to the NFL, it\u2019s Hendrickson\u2014but he\u2019s not in camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, listen, without him, who do you think Shemar Stewart is going to look to if he\u2019s not there?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UN-DKK5VH58\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Riddick said on \u201cNFL Live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Riddick said on \u201cNFL Live<\/a>.\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s going to teach him how to be a pro? Who\u2019s going to teach Shemar Stewart how to actually rush the passer and not just be a great athlete if he\u2019s not there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/cincinnati-bengals\/news\/why-bengals-are-seen-winners-shemar-stewart-contract\/a3bb2577b28f71b4e92d898d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why Bengals are seen as winners in Shemar Stewart contract standoff;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Why Bengals are seen as winners in Shemar Stewart contract standoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Riddick also noted that the Hendrickson situation affects new Bengals defensive coordinator Al Golden. The ESPN analyst stated that the 56-year-old probably expected to have Hendrickson as the go-to player on a defensive unit that he looks to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, Golden, who\u2019s he turning to now?\u201d Riddick added. \u201cThe new defensive coordinator\u2014who\u2019s he looking around? He\u2019s looking around, going, \u2018Hey, wait a second.\u2019 He\u2019s saying, \u2018This isn\u2019t what I signed up for.\u2019 You know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Joe Burrow went to ownership and said, \u2018Hey, look, I need [Tee Higgins] and Ja\u2019Marr [Chase] back.\u2019 That\u2019s great. Joe needs his stuff. If I\u2019m Al Golden right now, I\u2019m like, \u2018Hey, look, you brought me in here to replace Lou, and you\u2019re not going to give me anything? You\u2019re not going to give me any bullets in my gun?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if Hendrickson and the Bengals work out the situation and find common ground or else multiple people on the defensive end will be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The contract standoff between Shemar Stewart and the Cincinnati Bengals came to an end Friday, as the pass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[4191,228,227,256,2296,12,7,1577,3239,6,1496,2978,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-242088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-adam-schefter","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-joe-burrow","16":"tag-louis-riddick","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-shemar-stewart","19":"tag-tee-higgins","20":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114929503183883715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242088","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=242088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}