The post Bengals’ Shemar Stewart reveals why he finally signed rookie contract appeared first on ClutchPoints. The wait is finally over as the Cincinnati Bengals have signed Shemar Stewart to a rookie contract after lengthy negotiations since the player was drafted with the 17th overall pick in the latest NFL Draft.

The long standoff between the Cincinnati Bengals and first-round pick Shemar Stewart is over. Stewart and the Bengals agreed to his contract on Friday, ending one of the stranger rookie contract stalemates to occur since the rookie wage scale started a year ago. And somehow, the Stewart contract details make it all the stranger.

Stewart agreed to sign the four-year, $18.97 million deal after Cincinnati changed the language a controversial clause.