March 19, 2026, 11:46 a.m. MT<\/p>\n
Another former Arizona Cardinals player is landing elsewhere. After being released by the Cardinals before free agency began, linebacker Akeem Davis-Gaither signed a one-year contract<\/a> with the Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n He is reunited with Lou Anarumo, the Colts’ defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n Davis-Gaither played the first five seasons of his career for the Cincinnati Bengals. Anarumo was their defensive coordinator then. He signed a two-year, $10 million contract to join the Cardinals last offseason.<\/p>\n With the Cardinals, he played in all 17 games and started 13. He had a career-high 113 tackles, two tackles for loss, a quarterback hit, an interception, a career-high five pass breakups, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. He also led the Cardinals with 20 total special teams tackles.<\/p>\n However, he was cut, presumably for cap reasons.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>Cardinals free agents landing elsewhere<\/p>\n Davis-Gaither is the eighth Cardinals player to land with another team. These are the other seven.<\/p>\n RB Greg Dortch signed a one-year deal with the Detroit LionsS Jalen Thompson signed a three-year contract with the Dallas Cowboys.DT Dalvin Tomlinson, released by the Cardinals, got a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Chargers.OL Evan Brown, released by the Cardinals, joined the Houston Texans.QB Kyler Murray, released by the Cardinals, signed a one-year deal with the Minnesota Vikings.RB Emari Demercado joined the Kansas City Chiefs.LB Channing Tindall joined the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 19, 2026, 11:46 a.m. MT Another former Arizona Cardinals player is landing elsewhere. After being released by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,108396,95882,108386,101173,103920,96065,95896,95888,95899,96008,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-821735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-accessfree","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","tag-sstsncardinals","tag-tagakeem-davis-gaither","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagdalvin-tomlinson","tag-tagevan-brown","tag-taggreg-dortch","tag-tagkyler-murray","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsmg-listicle","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116257519399941257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821735","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=821735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}