Trey Hendrickson Update

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(4 hours ago)ochocincos Wrote: It's my understanding the Bengals do not like to do this, which is why they do not like to give much guaranteed money.
Instead, they try to say, "Well we usually keep people either through entire contract or with just 1 year left on their contract, so all but the last year is BASICALLY guaranteed....Right??"

I agree they don't like to kick the can down the road to create current year cap space, but would add most teams don't do it to minimize dead cap money in future years. Yes, they also do a lot of one year contracts, but they swayed a bit with the Tee contract. It is a longer deal, but is layered with incentives to reduce the guaranteed portion.

It is their way of doing things. They are ultra conservative which I know frustrates all of us at times. But as frusrated as I get, I would not be happy to 50K in dea money as some teams will in 2025 because they is money that can't be spent in the current year limiting your ability to sign FA's or extend tour own players.