Should the Chargers try to trade for Trey Hendrickson?
Should the Chargers try to trade for Trey Hendrickson? | Football 301
Yahoo Sports' Nate Tice, Matt Harmon and Charles McDonald look at trades they want to see including the Bengals' star pass rusher joining Khalil Mack on the L.A. defense. Hear the full conversation on 'Football 301' - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Matt, start us off.
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What's the one trade you want to see by the time training camp rolls around?
I want to see Trey Hendrickson get traded because I don't think he is going to get paid by the Cincinnati Bengals.
So I'd like to see him get traded and, uh, of course, I, he's got to go to a contender.
This probably wouldn't happen because it's within the same conference, but I'd like to see him get traded to the Los Angeles Chargers because they're sitting on just over $26 million in cap space right now.
So they've got enough to fit the first year of a big pass rusher contract extension.
The Chargers had a lot.
lot of needs coming into the offseason and they do have some questions along the interior offensive line.
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That's still outstanding.
But the other big need that I don't think they really satisfied this year was getting more juice, uh, in terms of their pass rush.
They brought back Kul Mack.
That's nice.
He's had, he had a pretty good season for them last year, but they did wave goodbye to Joey Bosa, and I don't think they have someone just waiting in the wings there that can fill that.
So, um, I do think that's a trade I'd like to see whether it's gonna happen or not.
Uh, I don't say I have like all the little compensation notes for you, but I'd love to see that one get done.
Hendrickson and Khalil Mack is like perfect as far as like synergizing two edge players.
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Khalil Mack is just, I mean, just a badass on rundown.
It's really good against the run, still a good sack guy.
You have the passer, but then you get a guy that's a true more finesse guy, and Hendrickson that you have to passer.
That's the perfect little pairing.
So I, I really like this one.
I'm not.
Um, really wasn't even came to mind maybe for Hendrickson.
I've, I've been kind of just see kicking around some of the teams that have cap space, but Charles, any thoughts on this one?
Yeah, it makes it makes a lot of sense, um.
It's just, it's just, uh, it's probably because the Chargers like you're in a spot where you, you probably need a lot of help if you're actually going to go out there and compete for the AFC title, but your quarterback is so good that it's going to be difficult to add, uh, the help that you need.
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So I think getting someone that uh that already has NFL pedigree, like Trey Hendrickson, he's only 30, so you can still get a couple more years out of him maybe before he hits the wall.
I think this makes makes a lot of good sense to add him to the roster.
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