{"id":840679,"date":"2026-03-29T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:19:14","slug":"trey-hendricksons-post-bengals-comments-continue-to-be-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840679\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Hendrickson&#8217;s post-Bengals comments continue to be strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2026, 5:30 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">From a <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> perspective, watching Trey Hendrickson\u2019s journey with the Baltimore Ravens so far has been odd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hendrickson finally got the big-money deal he wanted, landed in Baltimore and <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/14\/bengals-trey-hendrickson-interesting-comments-ravens-debut\/89147712007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had some odd comments<\/a>, including describing himself as a \u201c&#8217;win-now&#8217; window&#8221; player.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In new interviews making the rounds, Hendrickson waxes poetic about serving as a mentor for the young guys in the Ravens locker room, too:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That might smack a bit odd for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> fans who watched last May as Hendrickson flew into Cincinnati and <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/05\/13\/trey-hendrickson-shows-up-bengals-practice-talks-contract\/83599913007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave a sideline interview about his contract<\/a> standoff while teammates practiced behind him. It&#8217;s been jarring overall on this topic, considering <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/07\/30\/bengals-trey-hendrickson-helping-rookie-shemar-stewart\/85449116007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hendrickson was seen working with someone like Shemar Stewart<\/a> closely during training camp, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Also odd is the Maxx Crosby thing. The public perception around the nixed Crosby trade, only for Hendrickson to sign with the Ravens hours later, will probably never change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hendrickson has maintained what many will perceive as the company line while talking about thinking he was going to team up with Crosby:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No matter how strange things seem to Bengals fans when it comes to Hendrickson these days, all that really matters is what unfolds on the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On that topic, the Bengals just returned the same starting five offensive linemen for the first time in the Joe Burrow era. They also have a robust knowledge of Hendrickson on the field, too\u2026and probably aren&#8217;t sad that the Crosby trade didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026, 5:30 a.m. ET From a Cincinnati Bengals perspective, watching Trey Hendrickson\u2019s journey with the Baltimore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[95878,184,117,2282,7,6,169,13078,95905,95882,95913,98488,95899,95883,95911,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-840679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-ravens","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","16":"tag-sstsnbengals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","19":"tag-tagmaxx-crosby","20":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","21":"tag-tagsports-news","22":"tag-tagtrey-hendrickson","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116311962707338192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840679","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=840679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}