Cincinnati Bengals star Trey Hendrickson hits the management of the Katie Blackburn team after having told journalists that the defender should be `Happy ” with the current remuneration rate in his post.
“I think he should be happy at certain rates that he may not think he would be happy,” Blackburn told journalists during the NFL annual winter meetings in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this week.
“I think that some of them are on him to be happy at some point, and if he is not, you know, that’s what sometimes holds him. So, you know, he needs to say “yes” to something, and also, we have all the respect in the world for him “.
With his contract which expires after the 2025 season, Hendrickson and his agent obtained permission to request a job, only for the director of Bengals of the Player Staff, Duke Tobin, to express his desire to sign the professional professional quadruple to a long -term extension.
However, this agreement has not yet materialized, and as Hendrickson said to Pat McAfee d’Espn, the comments of Blackburn do not help the situation.
Bengal Star, Trey Hendrickson, strikes the management of the Katie Blackburn team after having told journalists that the defensive should be “ Happy ” of the contract of extension of the contract he had received
Katie Blackburn, the Bengals executive, said Hendrickson should be satisfied with the offer he receives
“The open communication line is always open with me and my agent, so if they have something they would like to discuss, we were only willing to listen to,” he said.
“Through this process, communication, when I say it was mediocre, it was, like here and there.
Hendrickson clearly indicated that he did not criticize the team for signing the Ja’mar Chase and Tee Higgins star receivers to four years extensions totaling 276 million dollars of total value. Hendrickson rather wants him to knew that the team prioritizes the receivers before moving on to his contractual situation.
“And respect for Ja’mar and Tee,” Hendrickson told McAfee. “I don’t want to take anything from all the great things they have done in their career. They deserve everything they have obtained, and undoubtedly in my mind, they will excel in the National Football League. I have enormous respect for both.
“But when it comes to my situation, it would have been pleasant to know in some respects, like:” Hey, we will put you in the queue “,” no problem with me “.
And although the season is still in five months, Hendrickson stressed that it is a matter of emergency, since the activities of the organized team should start later this month.
Ja’Marr Chase (1) and the wide receiver Tee Higgins (5) Watch the dashboard towards the end of the match against the New England Patriots and the Bengals of Cincinnati on September 8
In addition, the Bengals have lost their other defensive side leaving, Sam Hubbard, who suddenly retired at 29 after the 2024 season.
“ When you have things like the OTAs who come and guys like Sam Hubbard, who was a great captain for our team last year, it leaves a vacancy for that and I am delighted to fill it, but how to reach it before I got there ”, said Hendrickson. “These are the things that matter when you talk about a super bowl. It’s in little things and small details.
Hendrickson said there was no current deadline to conclude an agreement, but has strict conditions that he does not want to ignore.
Namely, Hendrickson wants to know that he will be in Cincinnati in the predictable future.
“I don’t think I want to play for incentives that will be out of my control,” he said. “I don’t think I want to play on a short -term contract and see where it is going. I would like to be able to tell my wife, here is where we are going to build a family together.
The former Bengals receiver, Carl Pickens, criticized the Bengals in the 1990s, bringing the team to create a clause allowing players to revoke their signature bonuses for such negativity
Hendrickson had 17 1/2 bags in 2023 and 2024. His 57 bags since they joined Bengals in 2021 have been third in the NFL in the past four years.
Bengals did not respond to Hendrickson, although the team is known to disapprove of players’ criticism.
The infamous “Carl Pickens” clause “appeared in certain players’ contracts after the star receiver castigated the Bengals to the media in the 1990s. Under the clause, which was confirmed by a court decision in 2001, the team has the right to recover a part or the entire signature bonus of a player if he criticizes the Bengals in public.
We do not know if Hendrickson has this clause in his contract. Dailymail.com contacted his agent to comment.