The Cincinnati Bengals aren’t the only AFC North team embroiled in a major contract standoff with a star pass-rusher right now.
Granted, nothing around the league seems as public and messy as Cincinnati’s standstill with Hendrickson, unless one counts the contract standoff with Shemar Stewart, too.
But the Pittsburgh Steelers are another team going through the same thing with edge rusher T.J. Watt.
Ask Bengals offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr., Watt is one of those guys right up there with Hendrickson.
“I gotta put my man T.J. Watt in here,” Brown said on ESPN’s NFL Live. “As everybody knows with T.J., man, he’s impossible to keep off the stat-sheet,” Brown said. “I mean, there’s been times I’ve played him, I thought I did a good job in pass-protection. And he’s got two tackles for a loss on me, man.”
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Brown also used the platform to talk about Hendrickson’s contract saga and its impact on the locker room.
Regardless, Brown is right that Watt deserves to be right up there with the best names in the NFL, hence the contract saga there, too.
Hendrickson slotting right up there numbers-wise and overall, too, explains why the Bengals would like his contract situation resolved sooner rather than later, too.
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This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: Bengals’ Orlando Brown throws out his take on Steelers’ T.J. Watt
Reporting by Chris Roling, Bengals Wire / Bengals Wire
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