The Bengals and their first-round draft pick are in a contract impasse, and things escalated Thursday, with Stewart leaving mandatory minicamp.

The implementation of a rookie wage scale in 2011 has largely ended contract holdouts of draft picks, with a couple of exceptions.

After calling out the Cincinnati Bengals this week amid a contract dispute, 2025 first-round pick Shemar Stewart has removed himself from mandatory minicamp, CBS Sports Jonathan Jones confirms, as the plot thickens between two sides clearly on different pages.