{"id":240464,"date":"2025-07-22T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=240464"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:32:53","slug":"trey-hendrickson-exits-cincinnati-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/07\/22\/trey-hendrickson-exits-cincinnati-training-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals News: Trey Hendrickson Exits Cincinnati Amid Training Camp Absence, per NFL Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s been month after month, and the front office said they were having a conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/tag\/trey-hendrickson\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Trey Hendrickson<\/a>, but nothing was taking shape in the real world. The NFL sack-leader of 2024, Hendrickson, was still waiting until training camp, hoping the extension issue would get resolved. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTHEY are no longer communicating,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hendrickson said in May 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But things are going down south in a frustrating way for the Bengals&#8217; star defender. The 30-year-old defensive end, who is under a one-year, <\/span>$21,000,000 contract<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has now made a decision. Somebody could have taken Hendrickson lightly when the DE said that he would not report to training camp if the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/07\/10\/the-trey-hendrickson-disrespect-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">contract issue was not settled.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Trey Hendrickson Has Left the State, per Ian Rapoport\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 22, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/bengals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> were suiting up for the first day of training camp, Hendrickson dropped a shocking update on Instagram. He posted a picture of the road, probably taken from his mobile phone, where the sun was just rising. The overlay text of the story was just \u201cFlorida.\u201d Through IG story, he was indicating something that renowned NFL reporter Ian Rapoport thought he was leaving the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NFL Network reporter, Ian Rapoport, hit the NHL world, reporting the latest decision taken by Trey Hendrickson. The NFL insider said,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cLong-term extension talks between the #Bengals and star Trey Hendrickson broke down over guaranteed money before camp\u2026 and Hendrickson has now indicated he left the state.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And added, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe just posted this on Instagram.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Long-term extension talks between the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bengals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Bengals<\/a> and star Trey Hendrickson broke down over guaranteed money before camp\u2026 and Hendrickson has now indicated he left the state. <\/p>\n<p>He just posted this on Instagram. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Le2aKris0t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Le2aKris0t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1947627724714983728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with him, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1947629661728506285?t=3Apcx-gpR4bcchhvvvyW7w&amp;s=08\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another renowned reporter, Jordan Schultz, said that the deal broke down<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan Schultz wrote on Twitter, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Bengals and All-Pro DE Trey Hendrickson made attempts over the past few days to re-engage on a new deal, but talks failed to gain serious momentum. Both sides are dug in and frustrated. I\u2019m told there are key differences between the two sides, and there\u2019s currently no clear path to a resolution.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Did the Bengals&#8217; Owner Say About Hendrickson&#8217;s Contract Issue?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208341\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-208341\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/USATSI_25118660-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson (91) celebrates a stop in the fourth quarter of the NFL Week 18 game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. The Bengals won 19-17 to finish the regular season at 9-8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the current contract, he will get a $15.8 million base salary in 2025. But that\u2019s not what the Bengals star defender wants. That&#8217;s why the Bengals owner was asked by NFL reporters about the ongoing extension issue, and what he replied was just full of frustration for the DE.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bengals owner, Mike Brown, said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It has been a long negotiation. Trey Hendrickson is a fine player; he&#8217;s a good guy, and we want him here. Dealing with him is sometimes not so easy, and that&#8217;s alright, he&#8217;s got the right to argue his case.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Brown also added, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;ll try to make sense of it from our perspective, and we&#8217;ll see. I&#8217;m not persuaded that it isn&#8217;t going to get done, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, the sooner the better.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First of all, saying <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHendrickson is a fine player\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a pretty shallow statement that players of his caliber don&#8217;t deserve. In the 2024 season only, he has made 17.5 sacks. Four of which came in the win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> on November 3, 2024. In the last game of the season, he also sacked Russell Wilson 3.5 times. In his three years with the Bengals, Hendrickson has racked up 57 sacks with 35 over the last two seasons. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now, it looks like the defensive star has lost hope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trey Hendrickson has reportedly left Cincinnati without reporting to training camp, according to a renowned NFL insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5420,"featured_media":235482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[7725,2573],"class_list":["post-240464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-bengals","tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","tag-trey-hendrickson"],"modified_by":"Drew Crabtree","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240490,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240464\/revisions\/240490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}