Is Shemar holding out?

[SunsetBengal]

(07-23-2025, 06:36 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: If a team pulling their offer to a player means they can't play at all that year rather than becoming a free agent, it's admittedly a pretty lame loophole that the NFLPA left open.

If we are sitting there with Joe Burrow already on our team, we have the 1st overall pick, the Steelers have the 2nd overall pick and nobody is willing to trade up with us? We should just take the QB and later withdrawal the offer. We then don't have to pay ~$48m guaranteed to a backup QB, and the Steelers don't get a franchise QB with their one rare shot with a high pick..... But then the best QB in the draft is forced to sit out a year and not play football.

Hmm, that may be a poor example of an analogy for the situation. We're not talking John Elway, Bo Jackson or even the other Manning, we're talking about a crap shoot on a middle of the round guy named Shemar Stewart. Many fans of this team actively wished against him even being selected by the Bengals, well before the draft. 

I don't care how good he looked at Senior Bowl Week, or measured out at the underwear Olympics, when the bullets were live his stats were pitiful on a stacked DL no less...

He needs to have a talk with his agent, humble up and sign his dang contract.