CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Trey Hendrickson was placed on injured reserve by the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday, ending his season.<\/p>\n
The All-Pro defensive end will undergo core muscle surgery. He has missed six games this season, including the last five, due to a hip\/pelvis injury.<\/p>\n
The move to injured reserve finishes a frustrating season for Hendrickson, who led the NFL with 17 1\/2 sacks last season. He is in the final year of a restructured contract worth $29 million after holding out during training camp.<\/p>\n
In seven games this year, Hendrickson had 16 tackles and four sacks.<\/p>\n
Without Hendrickson, Cincinnati has only 21 sacks, fourth-lowest in the league. The Bengals defense is also ranked near the bottom of the league in most categories going into Sunday’s game against Baltimore.<\/p>\n
Hendrickson is not expected to be back with the Bengals next season as he becomes a free agent. He signed with Cincinnati in 2021, and his 61 sacks over the past five seasons are fourth-most in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Trey Hendrickson was placed on injured reserve by the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday, ending his season. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1615,1613,2910,228,227,256,2296,7,88,6,996,14382,45204,45203,1614,9,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-594549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-top-stories","21":"tag-ohio-dayton-top-stories","22":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594549","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=594549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}