{"id":317787,"date":"2025-08-26T01:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/317787\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:39:14","slug":"trey-hendrickson-bengals-agree-to-revised-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/317787\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Hendrickson, Bengals Agree to Revised Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bengals and All-Pro edge rusher Trey Hendrickson<\/a> have agreed to a raise for this season as the reigning NFL sack champion begins defense of his title when Cincinnati heads to Cleveland Sept. 7 to start a run he believes can end with a Super Bowl championship.<\/p>\n

“No. 9 is spinning it, so we’ve got a shot,” said Hendrickson of quarterback Joe Burrow<\/a> after putting pen to paper late Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

With 13 days and six practices remaining before the opener, No. 91 wanted to make sure the numbers were in place for the Browns.<\/p>\n

“It gives a lot of clarity to the 2025 defense,” Hendrickson said. “It gives us a couple of more good practices, and with a great offseason in the books, both personally and as a team, I feel like now we can go collectively play for the 2025 Bengals. And what’s best for the team is the best players playing in their relative positions.”<\/p>\n

Hendrickson, who has attended meetings and been on the sidelines during training camp, is expected to return to practice Wednesday as one of the highest-paid edge rushers in the league. Reports have his new 2025 money at $30 million, and he indicated both sides are open to talking about a deal beyond this season.<\/p>\n

“We’re taking one day at a time,” Hendrickson said. “Moving forward, we’ll figure that out as it goes. For this season, to be given a raise I didn’t necessarily had to have been given, it’s a blessing to be in a position where I’ve been brought up to my peers. And also being able to get after quarterbacks.<\/p>\n

“I love this city and with what’s been happening the last couple of months, I’ve had time to reflect on what it means to me and how much I want to stay a Bengal for the 2025 season.”<\/p>\n

The deal culminates an offseason the Bengals gave All-Pro wide receiver Ja\u2019Marr Chase<\/a> the highest non-quarterback deal ever while making Chase and Tee Higgins<\/a> the league’s two richest receivers for 2025, and it comes nearly two years after they gave Burrow the NFL’s most lucrative contract in history.<\/p>\n

With the Bengals poised to begin the season as a Super Bowl contender, new defensive coordinator Al Golden<\/a> has been appreciative of what Hendrickson has brought to the table this month. A frequent image has been Hendrickson counseling first-round draft pick Shemar Stewart<\/a> before and after his snaps on the edge.<\/p>\n

Golden said before Saturday’s preseason finale that he anticipates Hendrickson, a disciple of Bengals head strength and conditioning coach Joey Boese<\/a>, could be able “to plug and play.”<\/p>\n

“I think, obviously, his play, his resume, warrants that,” Golden said. “He’s working on his conditioning with Joey and the staff, and he’s doing a great job with the playbook and everything. And obviously, if we can get him out there, we can transition him onto the field fairly quickly, given his expertise and experience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bengals and All-Pro edge rusher Trey Hendrickson have agreed to a raise for this season as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[204,443,7,81,898,59183,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-317787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-centerpiece","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-latest-stories","13":"tag-roster-news","14":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115092518851003547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317787","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=317787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}