{"id":185292,"date":"2025-07-06T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/185292\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:06:23","slug":"no-progress-made-between-bengals-shemar-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/185292\/","title":{"rendered":"No progress made between Bengals, Shemar Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/83712789007-usatsi-25316147.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NFL players can now partake in Olympic flag football<\/p>\n<p>Olympic flag football, which will make it&#8217;s debut at the 2028 summer games, just got bumped up a level after the NFL agreed to let its players partake.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Pulse<\/p>\n<p>Rookie defensive end Shemar Stewart and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> are in a well-documented contract stalemate \u2013 and a resolution doesn\u2019t appear to be in sight. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals and Stewart\u2019s team discussed the rookie\u2019s contract details last week but no progress was made, a person familiar with the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. The two sides haven&#8217;t spoken since.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals are attempting to change the language in the rookie\u2019s contracts to allow the team to void future guarantees. Stewart\u2019s representation is asking for his contract language to look the same\u00a0as previous Cincinnati first-round picks.<\/p>\n<p>Neither side has yet to budge.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart left Cincinnati\u2019s mandatory minicamp without participating due to the contract dispute. His participation in training camp is in jeopardy without a signed contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals selected Stewart No. 17 overall in the 2025 draft. Stewart and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" data-autotag=\"80ecb2c2-c4e3-4c9a-8c53-01c0a2da3542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denver Broncos<\/a> cornerback Jahdae Barron are the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/2025-nfl-draft-first-round-pick-signing-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">two remaining first-round picks left unsigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bengals rookies are scheduled to report to training camp on July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart\u2019s contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/06\/13\/cincinnati-bengals-tradition-disgruntled-players\/84179804007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">impasse comes at the same time that the Bengals are trying to reach an extension with defensive end Trey Hendrickson<\/a>. Hendrickson and the Bengals reportedly resumed contract negotiations last month after he had previously requested a trade. Hendrickson, who led the NFL with 17.5 sacks last season, is in the final year of his deal. He set to earn $15.8 million in base salary this season. Hendrickson\u2019s stated that he won\u2019t play under his current deal.<\/p>\n<p>Follow USA TODAY Sports&#8217; Tyler Dragon on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTylerDragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@TheTylerDragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL players can now partake in Olympic flag football Olympic flag football, which will make it&#8217;s debut at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[247,265,228,232,227,256,2296,231,258,7,2341,20842,248,267,88,6,35196,9,266,2340,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-185292","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-broncos","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-denver","16":"tag-denver-broncos","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-hendrickson","19":"tag-hub","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-nfl-hub","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-sports-news","27":"tag-trey","28":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114805027159958570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185292","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=185292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}