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It remains to be seen if this is Bengals All-Pro edge rusher Trey Hendrickson\u2019s final season with the team. Hendrickson is playing on a one-year, $30 million deal this season and is an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n
The chances of this happening are not high, but what if the San Francisco 49ers were to call the Bengals about trading for Hendrickson? There are two reasons why the Bengals wouldn\u2019t do this: One, because they never do things like this. Two, because Hendrickson wouldn\u2019t want to go across the country to San Francisco. At least, I don\u2019t think he would.<\/p>\n
Tim Kawakami, a columnist at The San Francisco Standard, explored the idea of the 49ers calling the Bengals about Hendrickson and making a trade for him. The 49ers lost their All-Pro edge rusher, Nick Bosa, to a torn ACL this past Sunday. It\u2019s the same ACL he tore in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll look at trades like we always do,\u201d Kyle Shanahan said during his conference call Monday afternoon. \u201cBut there\u2019s gotta be trade options that make sense for you and another team. You can\u2019t just do that stuff just to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 49ers roster is still a really good roster, even after an offseason where they moved on from some key players from their Super Bowl teams in 2019 and 2023.<\/p>\n
But as Kawakami points out, the 49ers from 2019-2023 were ultra-aggressive in building a championship-caliber roster. They traded for All-Pros in Trent Williams (2020) and Christian McCaffrey (2022). This past offseason, they signed multiple of their star players to long-term extensions.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s say that the 49ers offer a trade package involving simple conditions on the picks, such as \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 2026 first- and third-round picks and a 2027 second-rounder if Hendrickson plays 60% or more of the 49ers\u2019 remaining defensive snaps this season and the 49ers get to the playoffs and he re-signs with the 49ers. <\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Which would be lowered to just a first-rounder if Hendrickson plays 60%-plus of the snaps and the 49ers get to the playoffs but Hendrickson doesn\u2019t re-sign with the 49ers.<\/em><\/p>\n (A first-round pick for getting to the playoffs but not keeping Hendrickson? Not ideal, but not devastating for the 49ers, knowing they took their best shot this season and would have Bosa coming back.)<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Which would be lowered again to just a second-rounder if Hendrickson doesn\u2019t play 60% of the snaps or the 49ers fail to make the playoffs and Hendrickson doesn\u2019t re-sign.<\/em><\/p>\n (It all falls apart and the 49ers give up no more than a second-rounder? That\u2019s not the way they\u2019d want it to work, but that\u2019s not much to risk for the opportunity to go for it this season.)<\/em><\/p>\n Potentially getting a first, second, and third-round pick is certainly enticing, especially if the Bengals don\u2019t plan to keep Hendrickson past this season. He\u2019s currently slated to be a free agent next year, though t he franchise tag could be in play.<\/p>\n Would you consider this if you were the Bengals front office?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your best source for quality Cincinnati Bengals news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores from the fan perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"\n