When coached by Anarumo defensively, Hendrickson had his best career seasons to-date, recording a whopping 35.0 combined total sacks from 2023-24\u2014capped off by NFL First-Team All-Pro honors in 2024 at his position.<\/p>\n
While the 31-year-old was limited to just 7 starts with the Bengals in 2025 by a lingering hip\/pelvis injury, he did still manage to record 4.0 sacks, 23 QB pressures, and a forced fumble. Per PFF, he still had a +90.0 pass rushing grade in limited action this past season\u2014which was 6th highest among all qualifying edge defenders.<\/p>\n
Despite battling through lingering injuries last year, Hendrickson\u2019s \u2018pass rushing peripherals check out,\u2019 and he is only a year removed from being one of the best pass rushers in all of football\u2014when paired with Anarumo previously.<\/p>\n
A reunion between the two individuals in Indianapolis makes some real logical sense right now.<\/p>\n
With former 1st round starting defensive end Kwity Paye signing with the Las Vegas Raiders, the Colts currently have a hole at starting defensive end opposite Laiatu Latu\u2014as recent veteran addition Arden Key, formerly of the Tennessee Titans, seems ideally more like a rotational edge off the bench.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just a matter of whether the currently salary cap strapped Colts, can make enough extra maneuvers to free up ample wiggle room for Hendrickson, but he clearly checks off a lot of outstanding buckets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When coached by Anarumo defensively, Hendrickson had his best career seasons to-date, recording a whopping 35.0 combined total…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,6523,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-805673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-free-agency","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116208505088272474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805673","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=805673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}