Roughly 12 hours after the Baltimore Ravens backed out of their settlement to ship two first-round draft picks to the Las Vegas Raiders for pass-rusher Maxx Crosby, the Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals defensive star Trey Hendrickson reportedly agreed to a four-year, $112M contract that might be value as much as $120M.
On Wednesday, Pat McAfee revealed on his present that Hendrickson thought he’d be enjoying alongside Crosby with the Ravens. Later within the day, Ravens basic supervisor Eric DeCosta insisted he was “disappointed” the Crosby commerce did not undergo.
DeCosta additionally confirmed McAfee’s report.
Did Ravens really need each Maxx Crosby and Trey Hendrickson?
Per Charean Williams of Professional Soccer Speak, DeCosta shared that shedding center Tyler Linderbaum to the Raiders made it doable that the Ravens may pair Crosby with Hendrickson.
“Trey form of made numerous sense as a doable man to look it,” DeCosta defined. “So, we began some discussions with he and his agent, considering that doubtlessly we may have two pass-rushers on the defensive position, on either side of the road. Once more, I believe it was disappointing to us, and doubtless in a approach, doubtlessly disappointing most likely to Trey as properly.”
Crosby reportedly didn’t move his bodily with the Ravens for causes associated to the meniscus restore he wanted following the 2025 season. A Wednesday report claimed that the Ravens had been prepared to signal Crosby “to a revised contract that may have paid him close to the highest of the pass-rusher market.” Crosby’s agent later referred to that story as “fake news.”
Ravens mentioned Maxx Crosby plans with Trey Hendrickson?
“We had began discussions with each gamers,” DeCosta added whereas talking with reporters. “We had agreed to doubtlessly the commerce with the Raiders, however we had…We had been attempting to signal Tyler, clearly, and weren’t in a position to get that completed. the easiest way for us to enhance our soccer staff sooner or later, we simply stated, ‘You understand what, this may be a man that basically suits us. We’ve performed towards twice a yr for the final nevertheless a few years — 4 or 5 years — and thought, ‘Hey, possibly this can be a approach for us to get higher as a soccer staff.’ That was positively a chance for us. To not say it will have occurred, however positively one thing that we had contemplated and mentioned with Trey.”
No matter did and/or did not occur relating to the commerce, Crosby now seems prepared to function for the Raiders by means of a minimum of the 2026 season.
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