Before Saturday, the Cincinnati Bengals had something else to figure out.<\/p>\n
They had yet to sign second-round pick Demetrius Knight Jr. to his contract. It wasn’t just Shemar Stewart unsigned.<\/p>\n
But on Saturday, the Bengals announced that Knight had signed his deal.<\/p>\n
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ESPN’s Adam Schefter<\/a> summed things up simply: “Now on to their first rounder.”<\/p>\n Stewart is the last first-rounder who hasn’t signed.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0V<\/a>on Miller gets his Commanders contract figured out<\/a><\/p>\n The Bengals’ rookies reported to training camp on Saturday, but Stewart wasn’t there.<\/p>\n The Texas A&M star pass rusher is seeking a contract without a “default clause,” which is a standard request granted for first-round picks. But the Bengals haven’t given in yet.<\/p>\n But they can’t deflect attention any longer. They’ve got all their other draft picks signed. All that’s left is Stewart.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Saturday, the Cincinnati Bengals had something else to figure out. They had yet to sign second-round pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[7580,49,48,1740,514,7795,82],"class_list":["post-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-adam-schefter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-nfl","tag-shemar-stewart","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}