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While Trey Hendrickson has not yet been paid, the choice of first round Shemar Stewart remains a holdout due to a recruit contract dispute.
The reason for Stewart’s stay revolves around the language in his agreement, but the director of the Bengals of Cincinnati, Duke Tobin, clearly clarified the way he felt at the start of the training camp.
“I think Shemar must be here,” Tobin told journalists. “I’m not going to blame Shemar. He listens to the advice he pays for. I do not understand, I do not believe or do not agree with the advice, but I do not pay him. If I felt that we are unfairly dealing because it relates to all other draft choices in this year’s project, so maybe it would be a different story. But we are not really.
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The Bengals of Cincinnati 2025 Pick Pick Shemar Stewart. (Imagn)
Stewart, the 17th choice in total in April, left the last day of the mandatory Minicamp, where he did not participate in training sessions on the ground, because his recruit contract is not signed.
The Texas A&M product said that he did not want to be a distraction for his teammates while his contract dispute was underway.
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“I am 100%right,” he told Minicamp journalists concerning his contract. “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.”
Bengals would try to change the way their first -round recruit contracts are over, which would allow the team to cancel future guarantees. Stewart does not think that his contractual language must be different, with a professional football speech emphasizing Amarius Mims, the team’s choice in the first round last year, not having this language in his agreement.
Stewart was also a higher choice than Mims.
Shemar Shemar Stewart, the choice of the first -round recovery of the Bengals in Cincinnati, speaks during a press conference on Friday April 25, 2025 at the Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. (Imagn)
Bengal head coach Zac Taylor said he had “good communication” with Stewart before leaving the camp.
The owner of the Bengals, Mike Brown, also commented on the situation, calling the situation of Stewart “a very special thing”.
“It is not a matter of money. This is the guarantee in the case of if it were to do something contrary to the league discipline levels,” Brown told journalists. “I don’t think it will happen. This is what holds it. It has never happened as long as I remember.
“His agent wants it to be acting in a terrible way – all this is hypothetical – something that goes up in prison, we would be in play for the guarantee.
The defensive winger of Bengals Shemar Stewart looks during the mini camp recruit of Bengals on Friday May 9, 2025 at the Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. (Imagn)
“If we get a player who does something unacceptable, guess what? I don’t want to pay him.”
The Bengal training camp begins on July 23.
