Hendrickson says Bengals no longer talking deal

CINCINNATI -- Bengals antiaircraft extremity Trey Hendrickson said the squad has chopped disconnected declaration talks amid a quality regarding a caller deal.

In a connection fixed to ESPN's Adam Schefter connected Monday, Hendrickson said that "no connection has taken spot betwixt my campy and the organization" pursuing the NFL draught successful April.

Hendrickson besides said that the offers presented by the Bengals "did not bespeak the imaginativeness we shared and were promised" if helium continued to play astatine a precocious level. According to Hendrickson, discussions toward a caller woody person stalled out.

"Rather than utilizing collaboration to get america to a constituent to bring maine location to the team, THEY are nary longer communicating. I person been eagerly awaiting a solution of this situation, but that's hard to bash erstwhile determination is nary treatment and an evident deficiency of involvement successful reaching communal goals," Hendrickson said successful the statement.

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Hendrickson, 30, is entering the last twelvemonth of his existent declaration and his coming disconnected his champion play successful the NFL to date. He led the league with 17.5 sacks past play and was named to The Associated Press All-Pro team, marking 1 of the team's archetypal selections to the prestigious database since 2015. Ja'Marr Chase, Cincinnati's different All-Pro enactment past season, was fixed a caller $161 cardinal declaration this offseason that made him the highest-paid non-quarterback successful league history.

Hendrickson has made the Pro Bowl successful each of his 4 seasons with Cincinnati. In 2023, helium was fixed a one-year hold connected the four-year, $60 cardinal woody helium signed arsenic a escaped cause successful 2021. Last offseason, helium requested a commercialized aft the squad opted not to springiness him a caller deal. He yet reported for voluntary workouts.

Hendrickson's comments connected Monday were the latest nationalist improvement successful the ongoing declaration saga. Last month, successful an quality connected "The Pat McAfee Show," Hendrickson expressed his disappointment with Bengals enforcement Katie Blackburn's comments made astatine the NFL's yearly league gathering connected his declaration talks with the team.

"I deliberation helium should beryllium blessed astatine definite rates that possibly helium doesn't deliberation he'd beryllium blessed at," Blackburn said connected April 1. "I deliberation immoderate of it is connected him to beryllium blessed astatine immoderate point, and if he's not, that's what holds it up sometimes. It takes him to accidental yes to something. We person each the respect successful the satellite for him."

During his quality connected McAfee's show, Hendrickson said helium was disappointed with Blackburn's comments "because the connection has been mediocre implicit the past mates of months." He besides said the Bengals person not communicated with his cause straight astir his contract, saying that has "been thing that's been a small spot frustrating."

Last Friday, Bengals manager Zac Taylor did not person an update connected Hendrickson's declaration erstwhile helium met with the media aft the team's rookie minicamp.

Hendrickson is acceptable to gain $15.8 cardinal successful basal wage this season, the last twelvemonth of his contract. On McAfee's show, Hendrickson said he's not looking to go the highest-paid antiaircraft extremity oregon "first successful line" to get a woody done but determination was an urgency to get thing done. The Bengals volition statesman organized squad activities aboriginal this month.

Hendrickson isn't the lone antiaircraft extremity connected the roster looking to resoluteness a declaration issue. Shemar Stewart, the 17th wide prime successful this year's draft, did not enactment successful past week's rookie minicamp due to the fact that his declaration remained unsigned.