HOLDOUT OVER! Shemar Stewart agrees to contract | Bonus Episode

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Shemar Stewart has finally agreed to terms with the Cincinnati Bengals and will imminently report for training camp. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break it down in a bonus episode as the Bengals got their default language in the deal, and Stewart got a little bit more up-front money to sweeten the pot. Spilt milk is spilt milk, but at least we can put this behind us as Stewart begins practicing soon.

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0:00.0	Samar Stewart has finally agreed to terms with the Cincinnati Bengals.
0:06.4	Let's break down what got the deal over the finish line.
0:14.9	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:20.2	Part of the Locked on on podcast network your team every day
0:24.6	what up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the lockdown Bengals podcast part of the
0:29.6	locked on podcast network your team every day and I say episode but I really mean bonus podcast
0:35.9	emergency podcast whatever you want to call it after the Bengals practiced
0:40.2	on Friday. After James and I, James Rapine, Jake Lusco, your host of Lockdown Bengals, recorded
0:46.6	our post practice show on Friday. Shmar Stewart reportedly agrees to terms. Welcome back to the
0:53.8	everydayers. Welcome back to all of you who don't miss an episode of Lockdown Bengals. You can hit that subscribe button to make sure you don't miss an episode. James and I've been doing this for a long time now. So if you're looking for a consistent place to find news analysis, everything going on with your Cincinnati Bengals, you're in the right place. $500,000, James, gets this deal over the finish line.
1:13.4	The Bengals get the language they're looking for.
1:17.1	Shamar Stewart and Zach Hiller, his agent, get a small.
1:21.0	And I want to emphasize small from my perspective, concession from the Bengals to get the deal done.
1:27.1	But more importantly,
1:28.7	and most importantly, we can put this behind us and look forward to seeing Shamar Stewart on the
1:33.9	practice field. I think that's my first reaction is fans, all right, now it's time to give
1:38.5	Shamar Stewart a chance, put the business side aside and no matter what you think think because I get it like and I'm not saying
1:46.4	I necessarily agree or disagree with this but there are plenty of fans that are just completely out
1:51.9	on Shamar and it's because of his camp right and it's because how they handled this and it's going to
1:57.9	be because of when we break down the the small little concession that Bengals
2:01.4	made to get this over the finish line. And over the past few weeks, especially, I've really
2:06.6	tried to chat with NFL folks, to see like, should this be a holdup? The answer is no,
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