{"id":753870,"date":"2026-02-15T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753870\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:22:15","slug":"projected-value-of-bengals-pending-free-agents-on-the-open-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753870\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected value of Bengals\u2019 pending free agents on the open market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Cincinnati Bengals are set to have quite a few guys hit the free agent market this offseason and will likely see most of them pack their bags and sign with a new team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Bengals are entering the most important offseason in franchise history after the team missed the postseason for the third straight season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cincinnati\u2019s front office will have its hands full attempting to rebuild a bottom-tier defense and will likely need to do that without a guy like Trey Hendrickson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Like Hendrickson, there are multiple defensive names that are set to hit free agency, like Joseph Ossai, Cam Taylor-Britt, Geno Stone, and Cam Sample.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There are also multiple guys on the offensive side with expiring contracts like Joe Flacco, Noah Fant, Lucas Patrick, Dalton Risner, and Cordell Volson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/free-agents\/available\/_\/year\/2026\/team\/cin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotrac.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spotrac.com<\/a>, here are some projected numbers for the guys listed above:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trey Hendrickson: $25,449,056<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Geno Stone: $7,636,850 (wut)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cordell Volson: $1,420,521<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lucas Patrick: $1,327,480<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cam Taylor-Britt: $9,162,200<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dalton Risner: $2,417,200<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cameron Sample: $1,962,479<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tycen Anderson: $1,751,124<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Again, these are current market projections for these guys and may not be exact estimates for each.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It will be interesting to see what guys are back in Cincinnati for the 2026 season and what guys will be in new colors come September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals are set to have quite a few guys hit the free agent market this offseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,6358,227,256,2296,758,7,6486,27975,562,9256,10142,6,2862,2975,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-753870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cam-taylor-britt","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-dalton-risner","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-geno-stone","16":"tag-jalen-davis","17":"tag-joe-flacco","18":"tag-joseph-ossai","19":"tag-lucas-patrick","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-noah-fant","22":"tag-the-bengals","23":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116074862742058564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753870","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=753870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}