{"id":746221,"date":"2026-02-12T03:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/746221\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:45:27","slug":"report-indianapolis-colts-expected-to-hire-arkansas-defensive-line-coach-marion-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/746221\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Indianapolis Colts expected to hire Arkansas defensive line coach Marion Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAYETTEVILLE \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholehogsports.com\/news\/razorbacks\/football\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas football\u00a0<\/a>defensive line coach Marion Hobby is expected to be hired by the Indianapolis Colts to the same position, according to a report by CBS Sports&#8217; Matt Zenitz on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Hobby, 59, was hired in December as part of head coach Ryan Silverfield\u2019s first Arkansas staff. He agreed to a contract with the Razorbacks that pays him $700,000 per year through February 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholehogsports.com\/news\/2025\/dec\/18\/arkansas-football-announces-hirings-of-assistants-eddie-hicks-marion-hobby-david-johnson\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">terms of his contract<\/a> have no-compete clauses for similar positions within the SEC and NFL through the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Should he be hired by the Colts, it would be a return to the NFL for Hobby.<\/p>\n<p>Hobby spent last season in the college ranks at Tennessee as an assistant defensive line coach, and prior to that spent eight seasons coaching in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>He was a defensive line coach for the Cincinnati Bengals (2021-24), Miami Dolphins (2019-20) and Jacksonville Jaguars (2017-18). Hobby also coached New Orleans Saints defensive linemen from 2006-07.<\/p>\n<p>Hobby began his career as a strength and conditioning coach at Tennessee-Martin in 1995, and held the same role while also coaching defensive tackles at Louisiana-Lafayette from 1996-97.<\/p>\n<p>Hobby was an assistant strength and conditioning coach on the national championship team at Tennessee in 1998, then the defensive line coach at Ole Miss from 1999-2004. He coached defensive ends at Clemson in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He was the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Duke from 2008-10, and was the co-defensive coordinator and defensive ends coach at Clemson from 2011-16.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholehogsports.com\/staff\/ethan-westerman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Westerman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-email\"><a class=\"staffer__email\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nwaonline.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#10554775636475627d717e5067787f7c75787f7763607f6264633e737f7d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EthanWesterman_iVB1nLf_t261.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ethan Westerman is a reporter for the Hawgs Sports Network. He has bachelor&#8217;s degrees in journalism and marketing from the University of Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE \u2014 Arkansas football\u00a0defensive line coach Marion Hobby is expected to be hired by the Indianapolis Colts to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-746221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116055607890242439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}