Only days after a debilitating injury to Nic Scourton, the Aggie faithful get another piece of bad news when it was revealed that Shemar Stewart, the first-round pick for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2025 out of Texas A&M, had to be carted off of the field in practice today.
During first 11 on 11 session, Shemar Stewart, the #Bengals 2025 first-round pick, goes down and hobbles off. Was favoring his left knee. He went down behind the drill, worked on and eventually tried to put pressure on it and couldn’t.
— Paul Dehner Jr. (@pauldehnerjr) July 29, 2026
He was just carted off. pic.twitter.com/Cl0J3INwd5
Stewart was searching for a breakout year after a pretty rocky first season up in Cincinnati. His selection by the Bengals was not something that exactly went over like gangbusters among Cincy fans, and directly after that, there was a strange contract holdout situation that further soured some Bengals fans on him. Add to that that Stewart didn't produce the sack numbers that the Bengals wanted, and it was not exactly a quick start for him.
With Trey Hendrickson out the door in Cincinnati, though, the way was clear for Stewart to become the premier pass rusher in a Bengals uniform. This obviously seems to throw a huge wrench in the plans, however— there's no official word on what Stewart's injury is, but when you have to get carted off, it is generally pretty bad.
Shemar Stewart carted off the field in Bengals practice as Aggie fans take another blow in NFL ranks
It's an upsetting coincidence that both of Texas A&M's star defensive ends from the 2024 season, a first-round selection and a third-round selection in the 2025 NFL Draft, have now suffered minicamp injuries only days apart. Aggie fans were ready for these two to enter the league and be absolute game-wreckers, and Scourton got off to a very quick start for the Panthers, but this is a huge setback for the two of them.
Stewart came to Texas A&M as a no-doubt five-star out of the Miami area, already having the measurables of an NFL defensive end even as one of the youngest players in the 2022 cycle. He was one of the few five-stars from that recruiting class to stick with the Aggies all the way through his college career, eventually emerging as that first-round pick that he projected to be all the way back in high school.
He struggled to produce a lot of sack numbers, but he created plenty of pressures, and looked the part of an SEC defensive end— not to mention he was also pretty great against the run. It was that film and those measurables that boosted him to first-round status— and, having come out of college after only three years, he was once again one of the youngest players in his cohort.
That's why there were a lot of Aggie fans looking closely at what Stewart could do this year to see if he began putting up some numbers, but that hope has been all but dashed. There will be official word soon, surely, but as of right now, things don't look great at all for Stewart.
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