CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Trey Hendrickson kept going back to the word humbling.

As the All-Pro pass rusher and the NFL sack leader stood at his locker to discuss the $14 million raise that he received this week he said that he didn’t consider any of the long-term options that the Bengals offered him.

“Unfortunately, for me,” Hendrickson said, “I can’t write my own contracts.”

He called the revised contract a compromise. Hendrickson gets more money this season, and the Bengals get Hendrickson to kick the contract drama into 2026.

“I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunity to reach this raise because it very easily could have just been, ‘Play it out,’” Hendrickson said. “For me to not have to make a hard decision come game time, I’m incredibly humbled by the experience.”

The “hard decision

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