{"id":747899,"date":"2026-02-12T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747899\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:30:31","slug":"former-bengals-coach-news-could-impact-cincinnati-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747899\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bengals coach news could impact Cincinnati in free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 12, 2026, 4:07 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Another former <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> coach is on the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While not as high profile as the Brian Callahan move this week, it\u2019s a notable one, too:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> defensive line coach Marion Hobby will join the Indianapolis Colts, reuniting him with former Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RELATED:<a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/02\/09\/bengals-veterans-wont-be-zac-taylor-roster-trey-hendrickson-noah-fant\/88590162007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6 Bengals veterans who won\u2019t be on Zac Taylor\u2019s roster next year<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hobby, as fans will recall, oversaw some great seasons for the likes of Trey Hendrickson. His Bengals tenure went from 2021-2024 before he was fired. From there, he spent most of last year with Tennessee before a stint with Arkansas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A good move for Hobby, while also one that will only ramp up the speculation that the Colts could be a free agency landing spot for Hendrickson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If the Bengals don&#8217;t use a franchise tag on Hendrickson, he could elect to stay in the AFC with the Colts, given some of the connections in Indianapolis now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RELATED:<a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/02\/09\/bengals-key-offseason-dates-nfl-offseason-officially-begins\/88587669007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals&#8217; key offseason dates for NFL free agency, draft and more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 12, 2026, 4:07 p.m. ET Another former Cincinnati Bengals coach is on the move.\u00a0 While not as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,4779,13078,95905,95882,95887,97231,95913,95896,95888,95895,95899,95884,95883,95911,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-747899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-oh","16":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","17":"tag-sstsnbengals","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagamerican-football-conference","20":"tag-tagcincinnati","21":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-tagtrey-hendrickson","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116060032929749284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747899","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=747899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}