Pick of first round of Bengals Shemar Stewart takes out the mini-camp

The choice of repechage of unfinished Bengals, Shemar Stewart, left the compulsory mini-camp in Cincinnati, several media reported on Thursday.

According to the cincinnati enquire, Stewart left the camp so as not to be a distraction for the other players.

Stewart, 21, had attended voluntary training sessions and team meetings, but avoided participating in field activities. Bengals have selected defensive Texas A&M with the 17th choice in total of the NFL 2025 draft.

Stewart does not plan to sign with Bengals until they adjust the language in their contract offer to correspond to the plan of contracts signed by the two selections of the team first (Myles Murphy and Amarius Mims).

“I do this for most of my whole life, then suddenly, he exceeded something very simple to repair,” Stewart told journalists on Tuesday. “It’s a bit disappointing.”

Bengal coach Zac Taylor spoke to Stewart’s media after training on Thursday.

“For all recruits, you would like them to be on the field, but there are certainly things that happen during a career in the NFL and this is one of them right now,” said Taylor about Stewart when you miss preparation time. “He therefore participated in the meetings. He was positive in this way. He learned. He was a good learner, and we can’t wait to bring him back to the field.”

Taylor said he didn’t know how the contractual process would progress and would not guess if Stewart would be with the team when the camp would open next month.

“I’m not going to make predictions,” he said.

– field level media