{"id":214595,"date":"2025-07-17T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/214595\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:19:11","slug":"bengals-shemar-stewart-only-wants-a-contract-with-no-default-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/214595\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals’ Shemar Stewart only wants a contract with no ‘default clause’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shemar Stewart isn’t asking for a lot.<\/p>\n

As contract negotiations drag on between the first-round rookie and the Cincinnati Bengals, that can be easy to forget.<\/p>\n

But in an era of predetermined pick salary values, there really isn’t that much to negotiate. And Stewart just wants what all the other first-rounders get.<\/p>\n

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Last year, the Bengals and Amarius Mims took a while to agree to a deal. Cincinnati wanted a “default clause” in the contract, but Mims eventually got that taken out.<\/p>\n

NFL first-round picks rarely have a default clause in the deal.<\/p>\n

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A default clause essentially allows a team to void future guaranteed money if the player violates the contract in some way.<\/p>\n

Stewart isn’t asking for millions more dollars.<\/p>\n

He’s basically asking for his rookie contract to look the same as the other 2025 first-round rookies.<\/p>\n

If the Bengals had major character concerns to where they feel a default clause is a must-have, they probably wouldn’t have drafted Stewart in the first place.<\/p>\n

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It seems like it’s probably time for the Bengals to do what they did with Mims, soften their stance and get this contract signed.<\/p>\n

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