{"id":492617,"date":"2025-05-13T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492617"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:31:39","slug":"hendrickson-claims-he-wont-compete-for-bengals-without-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hendrickson-claims-he-wont-compete-for-bengals-without-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendrickson claims he won&#8217;t compete for Bengals without new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trey Hendrickson revealed today that he won\u2019t compete for the Cincinnati Bengals in this campaign under his current contract, which is an apparent escalation of his dispute with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati\u2019s star pass rusher appeared at the organization\u2019s voluntary workouts today but not in playing kit and talked with the media 24 hours after he announced that the Bengals has cut off deal discussions with him.<\/p>\n<p>The pass rusher shared that he doesn\u2019t like this move from the team and that things had become &#8220;personal.&#8221; Despite that, he believes that the situation with the organization can still be fixed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trey Hendrickson today to reporters: \u201cIf I sat here with four sacks, they\u2019d want a pay cut and some money back. &#8230; I\u2019m not going to apologize for the rates being paid to defensive ends in the National Football League.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson admitted that things have gotten personal\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nff3PKl3eJ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nff3PKl3eJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kllaq6ncED\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kllaq6ncED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1922327969080459579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson claimed that he felt the need to speak with the reporters after his boss, Zac Taylor, told him that he would be fined if he didn&#8217;t attend the organization\u2019s 3-day mandatory minicamp, which isn&#8217;t scheduled to start until next month. According to the pass rusher, that means that the franchise doesn\u2019t intend to do anything about his contract during that period.<\/p>\n<p>Trey is entering the final season of his deal and is coming off his best campaign in the league. The Bengals star led the NFL with 17.5 sacks in the past campaign and was named to the Associated Press All-Pro team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trey Hendrickson revealed today that he won\u2019t compete for the Cincinnati Bengals in this campaign under his current contract, which is an apparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492618,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18284,17324,23480],"news_category":[16703,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19257,17873,20643],"acf":{"announce":"Trey doesn\u2019t want to play for Cincinnati without a new deal.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492620,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492617\/revisions\/492620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492617"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492617"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}