{"id":65607,"date":"2025-05-20T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65607\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:04:10","slug":"chiefs-rival-begins-offseason-with-false-start-amid-disagreement-with-round-1-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65607\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs rival begins offseason with false start amid ‘disagreement’ with Round 1 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> endeavor to make a fourth consecutive Super Bowl appearance next season, one of their AFC rivals is set to begin the next part of its offseason program with a false start.<\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>, who are notably among Kansas City’s most bitter playoff nemeses, won’t have rookie Shemar Stewart on the field for Phase 2 of offseason workouts due to a disagreement over the language in his rookie contract, which still hasn’t been signed.<\/p>\n

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Stewart, who was Cincinnati’s first-round pick in the 2025 NFL draft, seems keen to sit out until the dispute is settled.<\/p>\n

NFL insider Jordan Schultz first reported Stewart’s expected absence in a post to Twitter on Tuesday:<\/p>\n

While the Bengals’ latest front-office meltdown won’t directly affect the Chiefs, Kansas City’s fans should be thrilled that a player of Stewart’s caliber is already causing Cincinnati headaches before playing a snap in the NFL.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: Cincinnati Bengals dealing with rookie holdout amid contract dispute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Kansas City Chiefs endeavor to make a fourth consecutive Super Bowl appearance next season, one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,256,7,6085,118,110,2438,2437,6,6001,6002,1496],"class_list":{"0":"post-65607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jordan-schultz","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-offseason-program","18":"tag-offseason-workouts","19":"tag-shemar-stewart"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114541721353193860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65607","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=65607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}