{"id":97148,"date":"2025-09-23T07:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=97148"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:40:33","slug":"blockbuster-san-francisco-49ers-trade-rumors-swirl-again-after-nick-bosa-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=97148","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster San Francisco 49ers Trade Rumors Swirl Again After Nick Bosa Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/trey-hendrickson-e1758579228635.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/trey-hendrickson-e1758579228635.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/trey-hendrickson-e1758579228635.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/trey-hendrickson-e1758579228635.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Blockbuster San Francisco 49ers Trade Rumors Swirl Again After Nick Bosa Injury\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Trey Hendrickson looks on before the Bengals game against the Vikings on September 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Monday September 22, 2025, the San Francisco 49ers got the horrible news that superstar defensive end Nick Bosa will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL, and 49ers media members and fans are immediately calling for the Niners to make a trade to help weather Bosa\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular name people are tossing around is that of Cincinnati Bengals superstar DE Trey Hendrickson.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson was an All-Pro defensive end for the Bengals last season, and led the NFL with 17.5 sacks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"5a7a3742082a721aedbb0c644b48e7bd\">\n<div data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/salibdaniel1\/status\/1957789990890475735\">\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s every sack (17.5) from Trey Hendrickson\u2019s 2024 NFL campaign. He led the league in sacks with 3.5 more than the next closest defender. Pay the man. pic.twitter.com\/fPJLwVWO6c<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Salib (@salibdaniel1) August 19, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trey Hendrickson and the Bengals had a long, hotly contested contract dispute during the offseason, and that dispute did not end in a long-term resolution. He is only under contract with the Bengals for the remainder of the season, which means the Bengals could seek to move on from him before he hits free agency after the season.<\/p>\n<p>Before the contract situation in Cincy was resolved, the 49ers were heavily rumored as a potential trade partner for Hendrickson all offseason.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>What Would The 49ers Need To Give Up?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Insiders and fans are divided on what the 49ers would need to part with in order to acquire Trey Hendrickson.<\/p>\n<p>Popular 49ers creator @Coach_Yac pitched that the 49ers should trade a 2026 third and 2026 fourth round pick for Hendrickson.<\/p>\n<p>In an article by Niner Noise, writer Nick San Miguel pitched a trade involving the 49ers sending quarterback Mac Jones to Cincinnati along with draft picks in exchange for Hendrickson.<\/p>\n<p>Bengals starting quarterback Joe Burrow could miss most, if not all, of the rest of the regular season due to a turf toe injury. Backup Jake Browning played poorly in his first start of the season, leading many to believe the Bengals need a new quarterback to save their season.<\/p>\n<p>But should the 49ers even be willing to part with Mac Jones? He has filled in for an injured Brock Purdy and won both of his first two games. Behind Jones, the 49ers don\u2019t have a rostered third stringer who has ever even taken an NFL snap.<\/p>\n<div id=\"923daee72b7b99cf88f4890316675ec9\">\n<div data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fsh733\/status\/1969909351814255047\">\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mac Jones&#8217; game winning drive:<\/p>\n<p>-11 yds to Tonges-10 yds to Moore-7 yds to Bourne-11 yds to Bourne-20 yds to CMC<\/p>\n<p>Mac went 5-8, for 59 yards to help set up the Eddy Pineiro GW FG! 1 of those incompletions was a throwaway, 1 was a spike. #49ers pic.twitter.com\/gwNgXDvAvg<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Im not a fan of your favorite team (@fsh733) September 21, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If the Bosa injury reinforces anything for San Francisco, it\u2019s that anyone on the roster could seemingly get injured at any time. Purdy may be returning soon, but if he goes down with injury again late in the season, the 49ers need an insurance policy like Jones to weather the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Jones clearly gets along with the rest of the 49ers quarterback room. He seems to be a good match for the San Francisco organization.<\/p>\n<p>Draft picks and\/or a defensive player seem like a more likely package if the 49ers try to acquire Henderson.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>What Could Have Been For Bosa<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bosa was off to a great start to the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Through 2.5 games before his injury against the Arizona Cardinals, Bosa racked up a whopping 17 tackles (9 solo) including 4 tackles for loss and 2 sacks. He also already had 2 forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>He was on pace to set career highs in tackles and forced fumbles, and if he kept it up and stayed healthy, he also probably would have had his highest sack total since he won Defensive Player of the Year in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickson hasn\u2019t had nearly the same year Bosa was having, but he does also have 2 sacks, has more QB hits than Bosa (6) and also a pass breakup to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, another 49ers DE, Bryce Huff, is actually having a more similar season statistically to Hendrickson.<\/p>\n<p>Could Huff step up and be a superstar in Bosa\u2019s absence? What about the rookie Mykel Williams?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think the 49ers should do to ease the loss of Nick Bosa, 49ers fans?<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Inman is a sports journalist covering the San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants and Las Vegas Raiders for heavy.com. He also co-hosts a college football podcast for The Voice of College Football, and writes about the NBA and MLB. He has previously covered the USC Trojans, the NHL, college baseball, and the intersection of sports and popular culture for other publications. He is based in the greater Los Angeles area. More about Ethan Inman<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on 49ers<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>49ers media and fans are calling for the Niners to make a trade for Trey Hendrickson to help survive Nick Bosa\u2019s season-ending injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":97149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blockbuster San Francisco 49ers Trade Rumors Swirl Again After Nick Bosa Injury - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=97148\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blockbuster San Francisco 49ers Trade Rumors Swirl Again After Nick Bosa Injury - 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