ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler has also since reported that the two sides have made progress, but the Bengals may have relented as far as they’re willing to go. “I’m told there actually has been some progress on this deal over the last week or two in certain parts of it, but this is an issue of guaranteed money,” Fowler said via Bleacher Report. “

One holdout defensive end is under contract, but there is still ground to gain in negotiations between the Cincinnati Bengals and Trey Hendrickson.

Reports have indicated that the Bengals don't want to guarantee multiple years of money on Hendrickson's deal, a standard operating procedure in Cincinnati, except when they make exceptions like Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase. Star defensive ends elsewhere in the league have usually gotten three years of guaranteed money.