Bengals Positioning for BLOCKBUSTER Trade...

The Bengals are positioning for a blockbuster trade to move on from a former first round pick before the trade deadline, and this report looks at the odds of them trading him and the return that they would get, breaking down if it's going to be worth it, and everything is us today, so stick around to the very end. Thank you for joining us here today on Bengals Digest. We appreciate you guys joining us wherever you may be, and we are getting very, very, Very, very close. To 6,000 subscribers on the channel, if you're part of that 75% who watch and are not yet subscribed, please consider doing so for $3.99 today as we give you daily Bengals news. We are the hub for all of it. News, rumors, breakdowns, everything you could ask for regarding the Bengals. We're talking about it here on Bengals Digest. It's completely free to get all of that, so be sure to subscribe if you're not already. 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Are you going to move on from this and get the value out of him that you can now before you give it all up and you don't resign him and then you get nothing out of him and you barely even got to play him or really see his potential play out? Now, I mean, we have to talk about what they'd be getting in return for this. So Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, when talking about the trade deadline report, said that Stewart is a name a few teams have had circled as a possibility for weeks. And teams predict a day three pick would most likely would be the most likely value. Now, a day three pick, the Bengals really have to evaluate if that is worth it. And with a day three pick, you also have to evaluate the cost of Shamar Stewart in making this trade happen. So Deshaun Gupta from Yahoo Sports says that that is $7.8 million in dead money to clear a roster spot and pick up a day three pick. There's a big cost to this. There is a big cost in trading away a player that you really haven't let fully develop up to this point. And some people I know are going to say, you know, you say didn't let him develop. He's gotten his chance. He got his chance last year and really didn't see a whole lot out of him. I don't think you can really take the first season that a player has, first full season, into account when you're talking about this. I know that it's part of his career, and we haven't seen enough to the coaching staff. He hasn't shown enough to the coaching staff to be a starter at this point and get massive reps in these games. He's been healthy scratches, inactive. What are they doing with him? That's genuinely my question because if you're wanting to get more trade value out of him and that is your goal, I think you should have him out there on the field proving himself, proving his value to these other teams to have more tape from this year to watch and see what player they're going to be getting right now in this moment. Because you look at last year's tape, you're not going to see the offseason work that he put in to get to where he is now, whether that was an increase or a decrease in talent. Um, we don't know. That's the biggest thing. And so you have to take into account his contract 4.3 million cap hit. Uh, he does become an unrestricted unrestricted free agent in 2029. So more, more team friendly there at the front end of the deal on his rookie deal. And then 6 6 million in 2028. So. You have to look at the upside of it as well. So Matt Bowen said Stewart has played just eight snaps this season. So teams would be betting on potential with the 2025 first rounder. And I don't think that that necessarily means that it isn't going to happen because there are defensive end needing teams. And the Bengals were that this offseason. So I think it was smart that they kept him along up to this point. But if you're not going to be playing him, you might as well get some value out of him, in my opinion. I know that depth is a key thing when you talk about getting later on in the season. But up to this point, it's not a necessity. And as we get closer to the trade deadline, I think it just makes more sense to trade him away and see what value you can get out of him. So Jeremy Fowler also says the emergence of Cassius Howell, that's a name I failed to mention earlier. Don't know how that one eluded me. But give Cincinnati cover should move it on. Cannot speak today. The emergence of rookie Cassius Howell gives Cincinnati cover should it move on too. So they have the depth in place of what they really would be looking at without Shamar Stewart. So we'll pull it up here. Obviously, that's the offense. But this is talking about if Shamar Stewart is traded, what this depth would kind of look like here in a second as we move on to the defensive side. And there it is right there. So you're looking at Boye Mafe, Myles Murphy, Cedric Johnson, Cassius Howell, Isaiah Foskey, all on the edge rush room. And of course, the defensive line is just looking a whole lot better than it was last year. And they're in a lot better place to be able to even give up a player like this. I think they're set pretty good, even without Shamar Stewart. I think they look pretty good right now, even without Shamar Stewart. And maybe you can get a pick that does help you out in the future In the future, if... You know, one of these other guys doesn't pan out or they're injury prone. I think when you look on to the future years, I would like to store up for the future in a player and just say that, hey, we kind of missed out on that pick a little bit. So Paul Dehner Jr. did say the Bengals sound happy with where Stewart's at and view him as somebody that will help them this year. And they can say that, but up to this point, it doesn't really seem like they're actually valuing him like that. They're not playing him like that. So what do you guys think Cincinnati should do? Do you think they should trade Shamar Stewart and trade him for a day three pick, which is what they're expecting to get out of him? Do you think maybe trade him only if you're going to get a better offer than a day three pick or keep him and develop the upside? I'm personally in between B and C on this because. I think if all you can truly get out and you've shopped around a lot, don't go with the first offer, but you've shopped around and all you're seeing are day three offers, I personally think you take it at this point. I would love to get better. Maybe, you know, a third or second round pick. I would love. I don't think they'd get a second out of him. Maybe a third round pick. I would love to see. But at this point in the season. I think that they've shown that they're probably not needy of him and they really are not going to use him to figure out that potential. So recent comment on a video talking about this trading first round player for a third round player. Maybe instead the Bengals could just hire more and or better scouts. Shamar shouldn't have been taken in the first round. He got three likes and people are agreeing with him there. I agree. I mean, you look at first round for a third-round player, it might not make sense on paper, but that's just what its value holds across the league right now in terms of what these teams are willing to give up that do need a defensive end. We're going to find out as we get closer to the trade deadline. So we got more trade talks to talk about here on Bengals Digest. So be sure to stay tuned. Even through the trade deadline, we got daily news for you. 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