Making the decision to wave off the Maxx Crosby trade Tuesday, the Ravens will add the best edge rusher left available. Trey Hendrickson is signing with the team, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero report.
Hendrickson agreed to a four-year, $112MM deal with Baltimore, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. That contract comes in south of where Crosby’s resides on the Raiders’ payroll. Hendrickson agreed to a contract that includes $60MM guaranteed at signing, Schefter adds. That will bring the 10th-year veteran pass rusher guarantees beyond Year 1 — something he targeted during his yearslong Bengals negotiating saga.
[RELATED: Raiders Prepared To Keep Crosby; Latest On Trade Breakdown]
Incentives can take the two-year total to $64MM, Rapoport tweets, with Schefter adding eight-, 10- and 12-sack benchmarks are in place. A $500K incentive covers Hendrickson in sacks, meaning most of this deal goes to base value. The $60MM full guarantee ranks in the top 10 at the position, though it is not yet known where Jaelan Phillips and Odafe Oweh ended up in terms of locked-in money.
The Crosby fallout may have benefited Hendrickson. Most teams viewed the 31-year-old All-Pro EDGE as being set to land a deal in the $24-$25MM-per-year range, per The Athletic’s Dianna Russini. SI.com’s Albert Breer indicates $25-$27MM represented the range, helping explain why Hendrickson lingered in free agency. As of Tuesday, roughly a $10MM gap existed between Hendrickson’s camp and teams’ early offers.
As CBS Sports’ Jonathan Jones notes, Crosby has about four years and $116MM left on his Raiders contract. The Ravens will shift to a free agent and retain their first-round picks, something the California Post’ Vincent Bonsignore notes does not appear to be going over well in some league circles. The Ravens stayed in touch with Hendrickson’s camp Tuesday, Russini adds, noting most in the building knew the ex-Bengal was set to join the team.
The Colts and Eagles are also believed to have made offers, Russini adds. An Indianapolis agreement would have reunited Hendrickson and Lou Anarumo, while Philly is still searching for a replacement for Jaelan Phillips. While those two clubs missed out, the Ravens have completed a shocking turn of events, ruffling feathers in the process.
The Bills, Buccaneers and Commanders were also involved in the Hendrickson derby, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler adds. Philly’s involvement here is classified as a late entrance, per Fowler, who adds the Colts believed they were close. The Bucs were offering a short-term deal. Hendrickson was connected to interest in joining the Bucs, as he is an Orlando native who played college ball at Florida Atlantic.
The Bills were also involved in a Crosby trade pursuit, while the Commanders pivoted to K’Lavon Chaisson shortly before the Hendrickson-Baltimore news emerged. Washington was in this market until the end, per ESPN.com’s John Keim, explaining the Chaisson deal’s timing.
It is worth wondering when the Ravens began discussing Hendrickson. Trades are not official until the start of the new league year (3pm CT today). It can be assumed Baltimore was all-in on Crosby, but Russini adds the team was familiar with the Raiders edge rusher’s rehab timeline. Crosby is recovering from meniscus surgery, a monthslong process that is not expected to affect his Week 1 availability, and some around the league view this as simply the Ravens getting cold feet on unloading two first-round picks. Hendrickson is nearly two years older than Crosby, but not costing two first-rounders is rather significant.
The Hendrickson market looked to see a mystery team emerge Tuesday afternoon, per NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo, who indicates teams became leery of this stealth suitor. That is widely believed to be the Ravens, who knew hours before the Raiders’ social media announcement they would be nixing the Crosby trade.
While this sets a bad precedent, such options are available to teams under a setup in which deals can be agreed to weeks in advance — as the 2021 Jared Goff–Matthew Stafford trade reminds — of the new league year before becoming official. The unraveling of the Ravens-Raiders’ Crosby trade took hours, Garafolo adds. Hendrickson came into the picture for the AFC North team at that point.
PFR’s No. 4-ranked free agent, Hendrickson scores a deal that lands between Phillips (our No. 3 FA) and Oweh in terms of AAV. His $28MM number is much better than where he was during most of his Cincinnati tenure. Hendrickson had signed a four-year, $60MM Bengals deal in 2021 before agreeing to a one-year, $21MM extension in 2023.
Hendrickson pursued an extension for years in Cincinnati, but the Bengals stood their ground and refused to offer post-Year 1 guarantees — an organizational precedent except in rare cases (Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase) — during last year’s standoff. A one-year, $29MM pact ended up being the late-summer resolution. The Bengals offered their top pass rusher a backloaded three-year, $95MM deal; he passed, leading to the August raise. The Bengals were linked to a 2026 Hendrickson franchise tag, but it would have come in well north of $30MM. Cincy passed and will move on, having agreed to sign Boye Mafe.
While Crosby probably has more long-term upside, Hendrickson put together a dominant run in the 2020s. The Bengals sack ace finished back-to-back seasons with 17.5 sacks and has two more campaigns (2020, 2021) with at least 13. After a belated breakthrough in a contract year (2020) with the Saints, Hendrickson helped the Bengals to Super Bowl LVI in his debut Ohio season. Hendrickson recorded at least 24 QB hits from 2020-24, topping out at 36 in managing to finish as Defensive Player of the Year runner-up on a bad 2024 Cincinnati defense.
Last year, hip trouble ended up shutting Hendrickson down after five games. The four-time Pro Bowler underwent core muscle surgery in December. That adds a layer to this edge rusher switcheroo, though the Ravens obviously do not expect Hendrickson to be delayed in coming back in time for the regular season. Wherever Crosby plays in 2026, he is expected to be on the field in Week 1 as well.
Never trading a future first-round pick for a veteran player in their 30-year history, the Ravens also have not been big spenders at the EDGE position since Terrell Suggs‘ Baltimore run ended. The team franchise-tagged Matt Judon but did not re-sign him, moving to Oweh’s rookie deal and a host of veteran stopgaps. This strategy, which included an Oweh trade midway through last season, led to Baltimore ranking 30th in sacks last season. The team will bet on Hendrickson recapturing his pre-injury form, while we wait to see where Crosby will end up.
Lmao
Hahahahahaha
Joe Burrow demanding a trade, again, in 3 2 1
Why? He’s been gone for a month. He’s a great pass rusher and barely nothing else coming off an injury.
But hey you got jokes.
dougdeb Wow must of touched a nerve. Ole glass Joe will be another Andrew Luck before long.
No nerve touched. He’s been gone for a month. They moved on already. A lot of you have not. If the Bengals pulled what the Ravens did with Crosby I bet you would have jokes galore.
What more do you need him to be? lol. His job is to get to the QB and he’s great at that, as you noted.
He had a bad hip injury. Unless he was milking it to be ready for FA how well do you think that ages?
He is miserable against the run. Teams run right at him because he sells out for the pass rush.
Why? Cause Myles Garrett and TJ Watt / Alex Highsmith still exist in that division lmao
Watching Hendrickson light up the Bengals and Burrow after yanking him aroundthe last 3 or so years is gonna be so much fun for Trey
But hey not like Hendrickson would hold a grudge or hard feelings after being jerked around by Cincy right?
He signed an extension and then got mad when other players got more. That’s not on the Bengals. That’s on his agent. Who still did not get him more money on this deal than he wanted. Are you a DB Steelers fan?
Nope. Just a non AFC North team fan that watched the Bengals jerk around Hendrickson and tried to jerk around their first round pick last year. Not exactly well ran organization
I already explained how the agent accepted an extension so he screwed Trey more.
And that first round pick that refused to sign over a clause that almost every other team has but beacuse the Bengals wanted to use it. That’s now a problem. Shows again you know nothing about what was going on. You just read Bengals and holdout and made up your mind.
You should practice not letting words hurt you on the internet
You’ll be much happier
Is that your go to when your having a discussion or disagreement. If I disagree with you and think you’re an obtuse condescending person that’s not letting words hurt me. That’s disagreeing with you and your knowledge about what happened.
“ first round pick that refused to sign over a clause that almost every other team has”
Nobody tried what the Bengals tried.
The Clause: The Bengals sought to strengthen the language regarding when they could void guaranteed money for “conduct detrimental to football,” with owner Mike Brown arguing they shouldn’t have to pay players who are, for instance, in jail.
The Holdout: Stewart, represented by agent Zac Hiller, refused to sign, with reports suggesting this was a new, tougher approach by the Bengals compared to the previous year’s contract for Amarius Mims.
Again wrong. The clause is new for the Bengals. It’s not new for other teams. They were balking beacuse it was not a previously included clause for them.
“ “All-or-Nothing” Void: Unlike previous, more lenient contracts that might void guarantees on a year-by-year basis, the proposed clause for Stewart allowed a single incident to void all remaining guaranteed money in the four-year deal.”
Womp
Womp
Droppedballfour managed to look like an idiot making fun of the bengals…that’s an impressive level of failure.
Good lord.. Let it go already.
I stopped after womp womp. Can’t really say much after that. It got me good.
Can’t read more than 4 letters apparently
@dropped. Bengals definitely screwed the whole thing up. He literally said they promised a raise and extension three years ago and kept kicking it down the road. He just wants his last deal, he certainly will terrorize the Bengals. I wouldn’t doubt he faked a injury to get out of town.
Burrow has never demanded a trade
Sure he did. Once he saw Maxx Crosby was joining the division he had his trade request ready once the deal was final
He was relieved it was negated
And now he has his trade request ready again knowing Hendricksons best games are gonna come against Cincy after refusing to pay him all these years.
“ sought to strengthen the language regarding when they could void guaranteed money for “conduct detrimental to football,”
“ with reports suggesting this was a new, tougher approach by the Bengals”
It’s not wrong at all. Sorry to burst your bubble.
The bengals literally tried to be record setters with Stewart using stricter harder contract language around void money happens in 1 year it affect future guarantees as in go after 100% of the guarantees.
Nobody and I mean nobody was using that language. Other teams had a standard only affects certain parts of guaranteed money nobody had language threatening 100% of future guarantees.
Which is why Stewart balked at signing the contract cause he was not gonna be the first NFL player to agree to those terms where one year affects future years at 100% detriment.
Try again.
Trey getting ready to hold out in 3, 2, 1…
He won’t miss the Cincy games lmao of all places to sign he signed with BAL cause he gets to stick it to them by harassing Burrow the next 4 years twice a year.
Could have signed with Raiders Indy anywhere really nah he chose BAL and violence lmao
The fact you think he lasts even 3 years there is proof of your ignorance.
Says the pro football rumors chat member who got his feelings hurt over a joke
Again?
Pivoting from one old injured DE to another?
One of them doesn’t require adding 2 firsts.
I’m living in a world where people think 28 is old….
In pro football, it is. Both DE’s are coming off major injuries.
Trey is 31
The reference was clearly for the 28 year old Crosby
Obviously there’s a good deal of risk here given his age and injury, but getting him for two million a year less than Jaelan Phillips and *his* injury history seems palatable. If Hendrickson can be even most of what he was before last year, this is solid.
Plus holding onto two first round picks makes it a lot easier to stomach a big veteran contract.
Wild. Just yesterday, multiple teams were interested but not willing to go more than $10 million.
They were definitely willing to go over 10 million, they were off by 10 million on the yearly salary that Trey wanted.
Yikes 😬
This is super sketchy. They had no idea they had a deal with Hendrickson when they voided the Crosby trade. Just kind of fell in their lap, right?
You beat me to it. I guess you can say all the timing just came together perfectly.
It doesn’t take long for a deal to come together. I mean you see FA agreements within 10 minutes of the tampering period opening.
I’m sure they checked in on him before the Crosby trade and maybe discussed terms. When the Crosby deal fell through they knew Hendrickson was still available, meaning his market hadn’t developed the way he and his agent hoped it would before the Crosby trade. Deals can come together very quickly when the range is narrowed down. Jaelan Phillips and Odafe Oweh both got four year deals on either side of this amount. That can be a fast negotiation when the edge market is more defined.
Unbelievably sketchy. Baltimore is a sleaze ball franchise. They knew about Crosby’s knee. The whole failed physical excuse is a patsy. End of story.
It’s blatant tampering the league better do something for something so blatant
lol What do you think tampering is?
In the NFL, tampering refers to any unauthorized interference with the employer-employee relationship of another club. This includes making public or private expressions of interest in another team’s player to the media, agents, or the player directly. That’s the nfls definition of tampering. If this doesn’t scream tampering you’ve got bigger problems.
What? Make it make sense. Making overtures to someone under contract without permission from their employer is tampering. How is that happening here?
They just tanked his value knowing the issue before the trade. Every team knew he wouldn’t pass a physical. They interfered with both the team they were trading with and Crosby because theygot so much flak for overpaying. Buyers remorse doesn’t change the facts. They just manipulated and altered an entire market for not just a player but changed multiple teams plans after everyone already made moves. Knowing Crosby was off the board. Make enough sense for you? Not only did they recoup the value they were sending over for a player they already knew wouldn’t pass the physical just to pivot and screw the whole league. Use your brain dude.
That’s not what tampering is.
They tampered with the entire market not your typical tampering now manipulate the wording how you want everyone knows what just went down. They manipulated the entire league, the trade market, free agency and it doesn’t just affect two teams.
You’re leaping to some pretty big conclusions there–much of which could be true–but the word tampering has a specific meaning in sports and it’s not what you’re talking about.
If anyone tanked his value it was the pathetic raiders. Trading a injured player who can’t pass a physical is outrageous!
You’ve never heard of a backup plan before? He failed the physical, so they pivoted. Very simple.
Diana Russini (?sp) reported the Ravens were literally on the phone with Hendrickson while Crosby was in the building. He was a dead man walking and didnt even know it. that’s pretty dirty.
You have to be quick with plan B, or someone else will pull the trigger. Crosby’s knee is more messed up than originally thought. Maybe the Raiders should have been more forthcoming about the injury.
the Ravens spoke with the surgeon who operated on him, they had all the medicals and reports. they were getting hammered for giving up 2 1st round picks for a non-QB.
They offered more than the other teams were willing to. It’s really not that hard to understand.
At that number, I don’t see more than 45 million or so being guaranteed or 1.5 years if you prefer that metric.
Very surprised he got that much from the ravens after concerns over Crosby and his health and Hendrickson not being healthy most of last year
I think the raiders made a bunch of moves thinking Crosby’s salary would no longer be on the books, really hurts their negotiating position in a future Crosby trade combined with the results of the physical
… and now all has been revealed lol
This contract was the medical issue they found with Crosby.
100% and it’s kinda screwed up, once these deals are made they should have to be set in stone, we all know he just had surgery a couple months ago. It’s like last year Milton Williams agreed with the panthers and then backed out a hour later when the patriots called and offered more.
Couple of problems with your thought process.
1) The deal was never official. The day deals could become official was Wednesday after 4PM EST.
2) The deal had a clause of PENDING A PHYSICAL.
That is why it is referred to as “a deal is in place,” instead “an official deal.” Just because reporters are irresponsible in their work and post, “Ravens trade two first round picks to Raiders for Maxx Crosby,” doesn’t make the deal official. You should be angry at these ignorant reporters.
this will cover up their underhandedness around Crosby
I would not say “Cover Up”….I would say “Highlight”…..They decided they could get Hendrickson for about the same $ per year and keep 2 1st Round Picks.
Maybe Crosby REALLY did have far more issues than expected when the did the Physical…..But the Hendrickson deal really brings that into question.
Not to mention Baltimore sports history (MLB and NFL) of voiding deals based on failed physicals.
Do some investigation about why the Orioles, primarily Peter Angelos was very risk adverse when it came to physicals. It comes down to two players, the major one being Scott Erickson, and the other being Albert Belle.
The Ravens do not have a history of this at all. A lot of teams void potential deals due to failed physicals. Are you upset with them, too?
DAL came out and said they weren’t interested in Crosby anymore, after their doctor advised on the Ravens’ physical.
they acting like nothing happened bruh
I suspect this deal was worked out before the Ravens announced Crosby “Failed” his physical.
Let’s hope he passes his physical…
This situation will force the NFL to reevaluate the tampering period rules. Bad on Vegas for assuming that trade went through, but it’s also a way for a team to hose a division rival’s cap by failing the physical (for a guy everyone knew was healing from an injury).
I couldn’t agree more Sherm. All it takes is one team to do something like this for the floodgates to open. That’s not me saying it will happen or that I think it’s likely because I don’t. Not on a league wide scale anyways. But I do think it could become an issue moving forward even if it’s just a couple of teams. The trickle down effect could be huge. Who know how many of those Raider FA agreements would’ve taken place if a Crosby trade wouldn’t have been in place? And who knows how teams pivoted to other players based on those Raider deals being agreed upon? A “tampering” period should not exist.
Not a big deal for the Raiders in this case, since they had over $100 mil in cap space to begin with. Besides, some team will acquire Crosby soon enough, albeit for less than the Ravens offered….
It isn’t Baltimore’s fault that the Raiders decided to be stupid and count their chickens before they hatched. The deal was never official.
The issue with Crosby isn’t that he was injured. It was simply how injured was he? It wasn’t that he had surgery, it was exactly how extensive that surgery was. The Ravens had numerous doctors look him over and they must’ve gotten information they previously didn’t have, or enough interpretation that whatever was going on in there wasn’t exactly the same as what they heard.
DeCosta’s comments to the media sound like the Ravens were negotiating til the last minute with Hendrickson, and Crosby was secured as the fallback option….
Then you and I didn’t hear the same press conference, as he clearly answered a question that the original plan was to have both Crosby and Hendrickson on the team.
Of course, that’s what he’s gunna say….
And? Were you in the Ravens front office meetings and listening in on their conversations? Then you don’t know.
Eagles trade for Maxx Crosby?
Ravens should be thankful and draft their new starting C at 13 now.
There’s no C who is worth the 13th pick.
Shenanigans! I call shenanigans!!!
Hey Farva!! What’s that thing called that Monkeys Uncle said, with all that goofy stuff that went on with the Maxx Crosby to Ravens trade?
Lol, so THAT’s the real reason why the Crosby deal fell through.
Yeah this feels shady at best….
Sllllllap!! LeSean McCoy says to leave his name out your damn mouth!
I hope the other 31 teams now either blacklist the Ravens for trades or assign a penalty/premium to them ie for everyone else it’s x round pick, but for the Ravens it’s one round higher
Then the Ravens can turn around and do the exact same thing.
The Ravens did absolutely nothing wrong. There was never an official deal in place, both parties have to agree with the deal, and the deal was always PENDING A PHYSICAL. Until both teams actually agree to the deal, it isn’t offical, and could not have been made official until Wednesday at 4PM.
NFL teams aren’t petty children, like yourself.
If you are replying to me, I am not the one that suggested that other teams impose a penalty on the Ravens for what these commenters perceive as a slight, because the Ravens could just as easily do the same thing back to the other NFL teams. It was a silly notion and I was calling it out as such.
Something tells me this will backfire on the Ravens, spectacularly… They just paid a 31 year old DE, coming off injury, 64 million guaranteed… This could be Vaughn Miller to Buffalo, all over again.
COMMENTS DEFINITELY OPEN!!!
Quote the Ravens…”nevermore”!
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap! Ravens are pure garbage! They intentionally nixed the Crosby trade on false claims to go cheaper on Henderickson….NFL needs to investigate….this is BS
What’s to investigate. They Ravens said they wanted both Hendrickson and Crosby. The Crosby deal was never made official and was PENDING A PHYSICAL.
Nothing the NFL or anyone else can do about the Raiders continuing to be a mismanaged and unintelligently run organization.
31 years old and $28M AAV is nasty work by him and DeCosta. I think they’ll regret this. Seems like a Kyle Vanden Bosh type signing in terms of thinking you’ll be getting the same player he was in Cincinnati and fizzling out.
The Baltimore Ravens have also announced that they have voided a contract with Olivia Newton John, because of being overly eager about physicals.
You must not have heard the song or understand the lyrics.
“Let me hear your body talk,” well, Maxx’s body spoke volumes and the Ravens didn’t like what they heard. ONJ’s song is actually a proponent of what the Ravens did.
So clearly they had Crosby, kick the tires on Hendrickson and found out that he would sign for less than Crosby and then backed out of the deal. Pretty obvious what happened here
I don’t think it’s that obvious. They had multiple team doctor’look at the imaging before they came to their decision to back out. Including the Cowboys team doctor which is why Dallas is also not trading for Crosby.
Having another teams doctor look at a player you are trading for is even more dubious.
They had numerous doctors look at him…you know, the specialists that do these kinds of operations, and you don’t think they had their own doctors look at him, too? Are you serious? Do you not know how these things work?
That would be like you going to your primary care for a health issue, and instead of them treating you for something outside of your expertise, they refer you to a specialist. You’d throw a red flag on that for being “dubious,” right?
So the ravens doctor is their primary and the cowboys doctor is their specialist. That’s your take?
The Ravens personal team doctor may specialize in one department. Sort of like in MLB if you need Tommy John, everybody goes to Dr. James Andrews.
You are a special kind of something, aren’t you. “A specialist,” is not the same as “THEIR specialist,” do you know how the medical profession works? Obviously not. A football team will have a team doctor, who most likely will be a general practioner in the field of sports medicine. They MIGHT be a specialist in some degree. But it isn’t like a team has a whole slew of doctors that are specialists in everything.
If you go to your primary care doctor, who is a general practitioner and MAY specialize in one thing, but you have a condition that is outside their expertise, they will refer you to A SPECIALIST, not THEIR SPECIALIST.
The Cowboys team doctor may just so happen to be a specialist in lower leg injuries and knee surgeries. If a Cowboys player had a rotator cuff injury, this doctor would not the be the one to advise, treat, or do the surgery for that player. They would refer him to a different specialist in that field, who may very well be a different team’s doctor.
Yeah, and what everybody is missing is in the part of the article here that got added later.
They said the doctors had every confidence in his knee SHORT TERM, meaning what they saw was some kind of degenerative knee issue that they think will cause his knee to get worse and worse as he gets older. I would bet it’s possible Maxx didn’t even have this information before, which would definitely make the post physical meeting suck even more.
This doesn’t mean he won’t be able to play but it does mean the knee isn’t just a one and done injury that won’t affect him later on. That’s why teams don’t want to offer even a single first round pick for him now.
Shady as f. Ravens are clowns
I absolute LOVE that this has pissed off other teams… especially those in the AFC North. Let’s get these rivalries back to the glory days of hating on one another’s teams with fire in our bellies!
As a Steelers fan this turn of events is irritating but as a fan of seeing other people get irrationally upset over things that have little to no actual relevance to their personal daily lives I sincerely hope the Ravens use the 2027 1st rounder that would have gone in the Crosby trade to move up in the 1st round this year to get Tate or Tyson to give Lamar a legit second option at wideout that he really hasn’t had his whole career.
Yes, good. Worry about this and get angry over something that was legally and done by the rules while the Ravens focus on football.
Ravens org just took a hit with this. They were looked at as classy and upstanding. They just wanted picks back, Hendrickson is older and also coming off surgery.
So you’re telling me that organization that still celebrates Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs, and drafted Mike Green last year, was fresh as a daisy until they disgraced themselves by backing out of a trade for a player with dicey medicals and signing a different guy?
With hip problems
Touche but how they conduct business was held in high regards. Maybe not the players.
Disagree that have numerous team doctor’s look at the imaging including the Cowboys team doctor. Which is exactly why the Cowboys have also stayed they aren’t trading for Crosby now either.
Cowboys could be twisted as Jerry is being stubborn due to getting rejected in prior trade.
No they didn’t. They were smart. They were led to believe something about Crosby’s knee, and through their own diligence found something contrary to what they’ve been told. For the money and the cost of picks, you better be sure you know what you’re getting in return, and the Ravens felt this wasn’t worth the price due to medical concerns. No deal. The deal was never set in stone anyway. If the Raiders blew their wad by counting this as a done deal before it actually was one, then the Raiders are the ones to blame.
Ravens as scum as ever
Was waiting for Hendrickson once the Ravens backed out for Crosby. Crosby had surgery but he played most of the season while Hendrickson missed most of 2025.
I think Baltimore just got tired of Rodgers and the Steelers grabbing all the drama headlines 🙂
Hey! No!! That’s… that’s… well, probably true. And also funny.
I’ll guess he has a great 1st season with BALT because he’s angry and wants to show he earned it. Then will tail off year two because he’s aging out and banged up. Much like Saquan Barkley.
Saquon didn’t tail off. They got a new OC and misused him. He was also coming off of a TWO THOUSAND yard season where he had 300+ carries and even more in the postseason. Everybody knew he was gonna have to shake off all of that wear and tear as the season went on.
So he ended up with less than the 31 million per the Bengals offered last year. There is a reason the Bengals are staying away this year.
$60 mil is guaranteed, so it’s basically a 2-year deal. Only way he ends up with the full contract is if he continues being a sack monster for the next 3 seasons which is highly unlikely. But getting that 2nd year which the Bengals were never giving him was a total win….
He might not get 15+ but Trey could easily keep getting double digit sacks throughout this contract.
Good for Trey. He always said it was never about the amount of money and always about getting guarantees past year 1, and he finally got them.
Great move by the Ravens but man does this leave a sour taste in the mouth of the Raiders and the other 30 NFL teams looking at Baltimore sideways.