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The contractual puzzles of the Bengals of Cincinnati continue.
The choice of first round Shemar Stewart does not train in the compulsory minicamp of the team this week because he has not yet signed his recruit contract.
Cincinnati has resumed the contractual situation of Tee Higgins this offseason, but Bengals are still confronted with the Rusher Top Edge Trey Hendrickson. Now their first -round choice is held until he obtains an agreement he loves.
Stewart, the Texas A&M product which finished 17th in the general classification of the NFL draft in 2025 in April, has not yet practiced this summer, and the Bengals would try something that no other team of the League has yet made the future guarantees for Stewart.
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Shemar Stewart Speaks at a press conference on the Bengals of Cincinnati. (Imagn)
The unprecedented contractual maneuver is not well seated with Stewart, and he rang at the front office on Tuesday in the Bengal complex.
“I am right 100%,” he said about his position on his recruit agreement, according to Si.com. “I don’t ask anything that you (Bengals) never does before. But in your case, you all want to win arguments (more) than winning more games.”
Stewart said he “couldn’t say” what he asks in his contract.
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In the meantime, he always attends meetings and does what he can out of the field to be ready for the season.
“I always study my game book. By deleting the right notes, then, every time I get free time, I go out to train,” he said.
But Stewart wants to be on the ground with his teammates. He says he prepared properly during the offseason for his first NFL crack.
Cincinnati Bengals 2025 SHEMAR STEWART REPACLING PRISION During training on May 20, 2025. (Imagn)
“You have to prepare a little to play football, especially me from the university. The NFL is a physical game, even if I played in the dry, which is very physical. Nothing compared to play in the NFL. I thought I would be on the field now.”
Stewart was considered a raw perspective coming out of the AGGIES program, someone who has enormous athletic capacity but must consolidate the technical aspects of the external secondary game.
He hopes to do it for years to come in Cincinnati, and although the contractual situation is far from ideal, he has no bad will for the franchise.
“I’m still new here. We still have a long future ahead of us,” he said.
Shemar Stewart Defensive of Bengals during the Bengal Minicam recruit on May 9, 2025 at the Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. (Imagn)
However, Stewart clearly indicates that he does nothing wrong with his contractual negotiations.
The ball is in the Bengals courtyard.
