Trey Hendrickson Update

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(Yesterday, 05:16 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: There's no way that Stewart could produce in 2025 a number would make any team comfortable having him as their only DE heading into 2026 instead of tagging Hendrickson for $25m-ish.

I mean if Stewart absolutely balls out and gets an unrealistic 10 sacks (last year the rookie sack leader was at 8.5 and second place was at 6.0... the only rookie to have at least 10 sacks in the last 5 years was Micah Parsons in 2021), that would still put him 7.5 shy of Hendrickson's last two years totals and we already were talking about how badly we needed a decent second DE to go with Hendrickson. 

So you'd swap out an All-Pro DE for a lesser DE, and then still have the same need at DE #2 in 2026 that we had in 2024.

Yep, and in 2026 we have another chance to draft a DE in the 1st, and/or pick one up in free agency.  You act like Hendrickson is just going to continue to play at the same level over the next three years. History says otherwise. If he were 25, I wouldn't be making this argument. He's not. He's going to slow down. Father time beats all. That is why he is so desperate for guarantees. He knows it, the Bengals know it.