{"id":131981,"date":"2025-06-15T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/131981\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:06:09","slug":"shemar-stewart-updates-minicamp-winners-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/131981\/","title":{"rendered":"Shemar Stewart updates, minicamp winners and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The interesting hits just keep coming around the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those Bengals<\/a> now sit on a break before training camp. Yet mandatory minicamp offered plenty of the usual storylines\u2026in addition to major contract drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at the must-know Bengals news right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stewart left early on the final day of minicamp. While things concluded early that morning, the fact it was announced through the media sort of says it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Shemar Stewart contract issue with the Bengals is a matter of who blinks first. The Bengals want to re-do the precedent in their contracts on specific language. Stewart doesn\u2019t want to be the first. Who blinks?<\/p>\n

RELATED: Bengals, Shemar Stewart nuclear option includes 2026 NFL draft route<\/a><\/p>\n

While Shemar Stewart and Trey Hendrickson sit out, other Bengals players are taking advantage to get key reps and perhaps even earn bigger roles in the rotation than predicted.<\/p>\n

When it comes to Shemar Stewart and the Bengals, there are a few options. A trade is technically possible (though not happening). He could just not sign. And the nuclear option involves the 2026 NFL draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bengals social buzz<\/p>\n

RELATED: Bengals standouts after mandatory minicamp includes surprises<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The interesting hits just keep coming around the Cincinnati Bengals.\u00a0 Those Bengals now sit on a break before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[247,265,228,227,256,2296,7,2341,1184,248,267,330,88,6,245,338,1602,2517,9,266,2340,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-131981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","13":"tag-cincinnatibengals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-hendrickson","16":"tag-listicle","17":"tag-national","18":"tag-national-sports","19":"tag-negative","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-overall","23":"tag-overall-negative","24":"tag-smg","25":"tag-smg-listicle","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-news","28":"tag-trey","29":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114687769631005826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}