Trey Hedrickson says he won’t play for the Bengale

Cincinnati – Trey Hedrickson He will need a new contract if he is about to get on the field for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2025.

The defensive end of All-Pro met the journalists on Tuesday during the team’s out of season training and spoke for a long time of his current contractual controversy with the team. Hedrickson is entering the last year of his current contract, but he is looking for a long -term agreement.

Wearing a golf cap and a blue shirt, Handrickson met journalists for more than 20 minutes to face the situation while the team has concluded his voluntary training.

The relationship between Star Edge Rusher of Cincinnati and the Front Office reached a boiling point on Monday. According to Handrickson, the Bengal Zac Taylor coach sent him a text message on Monday who is missing the mandatory minicamp of the team, which is exactly four weeks later, he will translate into a fine.

This prompted Hedrickson to express his part of the situation.

“We tried to keep it the least possible number of the most personal, but at some point in this process it becomes personal,” said Hedrickson. “Being sent 30 days before the mandatory field, or how many days they are, that if I do not present myself, I will be fined alludes to the fact that something will not be done in that period of time.”

Handrickson, 30, said that Taylor’s message pushed his statement to Adam Schefter of Espn Monday, in which Hendrkson refuted a relationship that the Bengal had been in communication with him from the draft of the NFL in April.

The four -time Pro Bowler said that commercial negotiations started making a personal turn last week.

“And when there is a lack of communication in any relationship, if it is a commercial or personal relationship, the lack of communication leads to the animosity, and this leaves my narrative only to me without a clear direction,” Handrickson said.

Since he joined Cincinnati in 2021 as a free agent, Hedrickson has become one of the best players in the championship. Last season, he led the NFL with 17.5 bags and, together with Ja’Marr Chase, helped Cincinnati to break a drought of nine years of not having an all-pro selection.

In March, the Bengali granted Hedrkson the ability to seek an exchange. Tuesday, he said he wanted to clarify the wrong idea that there was a predetermined return that Hedrkson believed he could take in an exchange.

“There is no way to know,” Handrickson said. “We were told what they were looking for and if they had been five choices in the first round, I would have agreed.”

Handrickson said the team is pushing for a short -term contract while he has maintained his position of wanting long -term safety in Cincinnati.

There were also several questions about why Hedrickson has continually sought actions on his agreement. In 2023, Handrickson signed a one -year extension on the four -year agreement of $ 60 million who had originally signed with the team. Last season, he requested a long -term agreement and then an exchange before that in the end he participated in off -season training.

Hedrickson has questioned his ability to explore in the free agency if the original agreement that signed in 2021 had expired and did not sign the extension.

“I think if I hadn’t taken that agreement, we are talking about a franchise tagging the thirty year old, right?” Hedrickson said. “This is the magical number.”

At present, Hedrickson is destined to earn $ 15.8 million base salary this season. Hedrickson has noticed how much the market has changed in the last 12 months, especially in the light of Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett The market restores the market with an extension of the contract that has an average of $ 40 million per year.

What happened this week intensified the tension between Hedrickson and the front office that cleared during the offseason. In recent months, the native Floridian has been an exception to the comments made by the Front Office during the League events regarding his status with the team.

“There are shark attacks not caused and there are shark attacks caused,” Handrickson said.

With his comments Tuesday, Star Defender of Cincinnati is no longer trying to travel the water while trying to find a long -term agreement.

Hedrickson offered the franchising praise and said Taylor, the team’s sixth year coach, was honest with him through the trial. And as regards the relationship between himself and the decision makers in Cincinnati, Handrickson believes it can be recovered. He indicated Garrett, who requested an exchange before signing his extension with the Browns later.

“That relationship will repair over time,” Handrickson said. “And the same with this. This is only the uncomfortable commercial side that unfortunately we have had to face in the last two years.

“And frankly, I think we are all spent.”