{"id":840891,"date":"2026-03-29T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840891\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:26:20","slug":"trey-hendricksons-post-bengals-comments-continue-to-be-strange-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840891\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Hendrickson&#8217;s post-Bengals comments continue to be strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/test-post-221407100.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cincinnati Bengals&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> perspective, watching Trey Hendrickson\u2019s journey with the Baltimore Ravens so far has been odd.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson finally got the big-money deal he wanted, landed in Baltimore and <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/trey-hendrickson-makes-interesting-comments-093043211.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:had some odd comments;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;had some odd comments&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had some odd comments<\/a>, including describing himself as a \u201c&#8217;win-now&#8217; window&#8221; player.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<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:<\/p>\n<p>That might smack a bit odd for <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bengals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bengals<\/a> fans who watched last May as Hendrickson flew into Cincinnati and <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/trey-hendrickson-shows-bengals-practice-164148153.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:gave a sideline interview about his contract;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;gave a sideline interview about his contract&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" 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=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/07\/30\/bengals-trey-hendrickson-helping-rookie-shemar-stewart\/85449116007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hendrickson was seen working with someone like Shemar Stewart;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hendrickson was seen working with someone like Shemar Stewart&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Hendrickson was seen working with someone like Shemar Stewart<\/a> closely during training camp, too.<\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson has maintained what many will perceive as the company line while talking about thinking he was going to team up with Crosby:<\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/29\/trey-hendrickson-bengals-comments-strange-maxx-crosby\/89372122007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trey Hendrickson&#039;s post-Bengals comments continue to be strange;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Trey Hendrickson&#039;s post-Bengals comments continue to be strange&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Trey Hendrickson&#8217;s post-Bengals comments continue to be strange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a Cincinnati Bengals perspective, watching Trey Hendrickson\u2019s journey with the Baltimore Ravens so far has been odd.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,39194,256,7,1577,6563,276,6,115637,169,1496,1503],"class_list":["post-840891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimoreravens","tag-bengals-fans","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-football","tag-joe-burrow","tag-maxx-crosby","tag-mike-green","tag-nfl","tag-odd-comments","tag-ravens","tag-shemar-stewart","tag-trey-hendrickson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116312695520910442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840891","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=840891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}