Some NFL front offices like to play the personnel equivalent of 4D chess, whereas the Cincinnati Bengals' brain trust loves them some Scrabble Junior.
Trey Hendrickson is on an expiring contract and turns 31 in a month's time. Not that he has the typical wear and tear of a defensive end his age, since he didn't start until later in his career.
But that isn't the point I'm making. The point I'm making is, the Bengals have committed a comedy of errors in handling their relationship with Hendrickson ever since he signed on before the run to Super Bowl LVI.