Behind Trey Hendrickson — who carries plenty of questions of his own as he hasn’t reported yet — the Bengals’ defensive end room is completely hypothetical. No player is more hypothetical than Stewart. There’s a world where he’s second on the team in sacks, and there’s a world where he essentially redshirts in 2025 like Murphy did back in 2023.

Rookie defensive end Shemar Stewart and the Cincinnati Bengals are in a well-documented contract stalemate – and a resolution doesn’t appear to be in sight. The Bengals and Stewart’s team discussed the rookie’s contract details last week but no ...