{"id":711722,"date":"2026-01-28T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/711722\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:12:16","slug":"ravens-named-top-landing-spot-for-trey-hendrickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/711722\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Named Top Landing Spot for Trey Hendrickson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ravens Named Best Landing Spot for Trey Hendrickson<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens are in need of a game-wrecking edge rusher. General Manager Eric DeCosta said earlier this month that he hopes to have the salary cap flexibility to &#8220;potentially go after a couple of big-ticket items&#8221; in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Bengals four-time Pro Bowler Trey Hendrickson would qualify as both of those things.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/landing-spots-nfls-top-50-free-agents-george-pickens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS Sports\u2019 Zachary Pereles<\/a> said the Ravens are the ideal landing spot for Hendrickson, who is No. 2 in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/early-look-at-2026-nfl-free-agency-ranking-top-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS Sports\u2019 Garrett Podell\u2019s top 50 free agents rankings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ravens finished 31st in sack rate, and they could lose [several] edge defenders in free agency,&#8221; Pereles wrote. &#8220;There&#8217;s a clear need here, and Hendrickson fits the Ravens&#8217; win-now window.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson, 31, averaged 14 sacks per season from 2020-2024. He had four sacks in seven games in 2025 after suffering a hip\/pelvis injury that required core muscle surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hendrickson could land a multiyear deal with an average per year salary around $30 million over the next two or three seasons,&#8221; Podell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>For the Ravens, defensive end Dre&#8217;Mont Jones and outside linebackers Kyle Van Noy and David Ojabo are pending free agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens Named Best Landing Spot for Trey Hendrickson The Ravens are in need of a game-wrecking edge rusher.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,781,786,888,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-711722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","14":"tag-late-for-work","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115973373597623316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711722","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=711722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}