According to KPRC2\u2019s Aaron Wilson, the Indianapolis Colts worked out former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Markus Bailey, who was previously coached by their veteran defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo:<\/p>\n
Originally a 2020 7th round pick of the Bengals out of Purdue University, the 6\u20191\u201d, 235 pound linebacker played under Anarumo from 2020-2023 in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
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He later joined the Arizona Cardinals organization in 2024, where he appeared in 1 game, but was also suspended 6 games for violating the league\u2019s performance enhancing-drug policy that same season.<\/p>\n
During 61 career games (4 starts), Bailey has 73 tackles (46 solo), 0.5 sacks, and a pass defensed.<\/p>\n
He did not play professional football last season, but currently is on the UFL Birmingham Stallions roster.<\/p>\n
With the need to get faster and younger, the Colts are expected to revamp their linebacking corps this offseason.<\/p>\n
However, Bailey appears to be more of a special teamer and backup depth piece at this stage of his playing career than potential starting linebacker candidate for the Colts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to KPRC2\u2019s Aaron Wilson, the Indianapolis Colts worked out former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Markus Bailey, who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[3258,390,53,256,2005,7,2004,392,2381,5424,109024,6],"class_list":["post-765624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-aaron-wilson","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-lou-anarumo","tag-markus-bailey","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116105706706505899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765624","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=765624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}