It's a 4-year, $112M deal for Trey Hendrickson. Huge. A four-time Pro Bowler who is just one season removed from a 2024 campaign in which he led the league with 17.5 sacks, earned first-team All-Pro honors, and finished second in the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year race, Hendrickson is the type of player a team needing help getting to the quarterback would traditionally rush to sign.
Tampa is clearly the weakest team in the division after a quintessential Rays offseason that involved letting several marquee players go. They traded long-time second baseman-and known Blue Jays killer-Brandon Lowe to the Pittsburgh Pirates and watched closer Pete Fairbanks sign a one-year deal in Miami, among other moves.
In his final pre-deadline trade board, notable commentator Nick Kyrpeos shot down any speculation regarding Rielly. While he noted that Oliver Ekman-Larsson could be on the move, Kypreos underscored the point that "there is no market for Morgan Rielly."