Overview
- Hendrickson left the Cincinnati Bengals in free agency this March and signed with the Baltimore Ravens, setting up a first matchup with his former team later this month.
- He missed two games after in-season surgery to repair a hand fracture and returned in mid-October, registering a sack in his first game back.
- Baltimore has used Hendrickson sparingly so far with 160 snaps over four games while he has produced two sacks, 14 quarterback hurries and a high pressure rate in analytics from PFF and NextGenStats.
- Ravens coach Jesse Minter called Hendrickson’s recovery an ongoing positive, while Bengals coach Zac Taylor gave a restrained response and left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. publicly downplayed the personal storyline.
- Cincinnati’s offensive line and run game will be central to limiting Hendrickson’s impact and the matchup will help show whether Baltimore’s investment in a top pass rusher changes the AFC North pecking order.