his Top 101 NFL Free Agents<\/a>, and two Bengals were listed in his breakdown.<\/p>\nDefensive end Trey Hendrickson checked in at sixth on the list, with Rosenthal referencing Hendrickson\u2019s dominant 2024 season, while also referencing his age and the injury sustained last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly one season removed from finishing second in Defensive Player of the Year voting, Hendrickson hits free agency again, this time as a 31-year-old coming off core muscle surgery. He\u2019s a boom-or-bust signing for a team looking to get over the hump.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is seemingly the expectation that Hendrickson will find a new home this offseason, so the Bengals may be tasked with finding a replacement for his production.<\/p>\n
The final Bengal on the list was another defensive end in Joseph Ossai, who checked in at No. 48. Ossai was a free agent last year before returning to Cincinnati on a one year, $7 million deal. Ossai saw more snaps in 2025 and increased his production, so the interest could be stronger for him this offseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter returning to the Bengals on a one-year deal, Ossai recorded a career-high 43 pressures, according to Pro Football Focus. He\u2019ll do better in the market this time around,\u201d Rosenthal wrote.<\/p>\n
Ossai may move on, but it will be interesting to see if the Bengals turn to him rather than Hendrickson, strictly based on age and injury history.<\/p>\n
The NFL\u2019s legal tampering period will begin at 9 am on March 9th, and that will be when we begin to see where the free agents will land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the NFL offseason rolls on, all eyes are on how the Cincinnati Bengals attack free agency and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2424,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-771785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-free-agency","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","13":"tag-cincinnatibengals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116121800957828921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771785","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=771785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}