Bengals brass furious at rookie Shemar Stewart's holdout with training camp close: 'I don’t understand'

While Trey Hendrickson has still yet to be paid first-round pick Shemar Stewart remains a holdout due to a rookie contract dispute The reason behind Stewart s holdout revolves around the language within his deal but Cincinnati Bengals executive Duke Tobin made himself quite clear about how he feels heading into the start of training camp I think Shemar requirements to be here Tobin reported reporters I m not going to blame Shemar He is listening to the advice he is paying for I don t understand or believe or agree with the advice but I m not the one paying for it If I felt we were treating him unfairly as it relates to all the other draft picks in this year s draft then maybe it would be a different story But we are not I don t really understand where things are there CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMStewart the th overall pick back in April left the final day of mandatory minicamp where he wasn t participating in on-field workouts due to his rookie contract not being signed The Texas A M product announced that he didn t want to be a distraction to his teammates while his contract dispute was ongoing EX-NFL STAR THROWS COLD WATER ON SHEDEUR SANDERS' BROWNS STARTING QB HOPES I m right he stated reporters at minicamp regarding his contract I m not asking for nothing y all the Bengals have never done before But in y all event y all just want to win arguments more than winning more games The Bengals are reportedly trying to change the way their first-round rookie contracts are done which would allow the association to void future guarantees Stewart doesn t feel his contract language necessities to be different with Pro Football Talk pointing out Amarius Mims the association s first-round pick last year not having that language in his deal Stewart was a higher pick than Mims as well Bengals head coach Zac Taylor stated he had good communication with Stewart before leaving camp Bengals owner Mike Brown commented on the situation as well calling Stewart s situation a very peculiar thing It s not about money It s about the guarantee in the matter of if he were to do something contrary to the discipline levels of the league Brown announced to reporters I don t think that s going to happen ever That s what s holding it up It s never happened as long as I can remember His agent wants it to be if he acted in a terrible fashion this is all hypothetical something that rises to the level of going to prison we d be on the line for the guarantee If we get a participant who does something unacceptable guess what I don t want to pay him Bengals training camp begins on July Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter