While Shemar Stewart and Trey Hendrickson sit out, other Bengals players are taking advantage to get key reps and perhaps even earn bigger roles in the rotation than predicted.

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

Shemar Stewart's holdout from the Cincinnati Bengals due to some of the language they want to include in his rookie contract is reportedly a fairly common practice used by other teams.