There is a subtle but substantial difference between giving a player permission to search for a job and listen to commercial offers for the player.
As for the defensive winger of Bengals, Trey Hendrickson, the first occurred months ago. The latter is would have taken place now.
The goal, as we understood at the time, for having allowed Hendrickson to seek a profession was to allow him to realize that no other team would be willing to pay him what he wants. The fact, as has been reported, that the Bengals are currently listening to offers for the Hendrickson contract implies that one or more teams are now willing to pay it more than Bengals.
The market has changed since Hendrickson first tried to find a business. This happened the day after the raiders signing the defensive winger Maxx Crosby to a contract with an average of 35.5 million dollars per year. Since then, the Browns have re-signed the defensive winger Myles Garrett to a new money of $ 40 million. More recently, the Steelers and TJ Watt have pushed the new money bar at $ 41 million.
The other problem between Bengals and Hendrickson concerns the structure of the agreement. Bengals would not have been willing to fully guarantee more than the first year of the agreement.
It is quite possible, if not likely, that one or more teams are ready to offer a contract that Hendrickson will accept. Indeed, common sense suggests that a team would not give value to Bengals for Hendrickson without knowing that it can sign it to a new agreement, especially since it clearly indicated that it will not play in its current compensation set of $ 16 million.
If all this is true – and if they listen to offers that other teams make – the ball is in the Bengals courtyard. The question of whether the quarter-Arrière Joe Burrow will be satisfied with the prospect of going to Hendrickson is a different problem.
Anyway, week 1 occurs in three weeks. If Hendrickson will be uniform for anyone on September 4 or September 5 or September 7 or September 8, something must happen soon.
