Markus Bailey shall be unavailable to the Cardinals for a lot of the rest of the common season. The fifth-year linebacker was issued a six-game suspension on Tuesday for violating the NFL’s PED coverage, the league introduced.
Bailey is on Arizona’s follow squad, and he has made one look to this point in 2024. The 27-year-old spent his first 4 campaigns with the Bengals, totaling 60 appearances and 4 begins. He landed a one-year Cardinals deal in Could after exhibiting his potential as a backup defender and key special-teams presence.
The Purdue product was amongst Arizona’s ultimate roster cuts, however he was instantly retained on a taxi-squad deal. Bailey was solely elevated to the energetic roster for the workforce’s Week 7 contest, throughout which he didn’t see the sphere on protection however was concerned on particular groups. Now, he won’t be eligible to go well with up till the Cardinals’ regular-season finale.
Arizona is at present using a four-game successful streak, and the workforce leads the NFC West in consequence. The Cardinals’ success has come regardless of the very fact their protection sits within the backside half of the league in each passing and speeding yards allowed per recreation. Total, a Twelfth-place rating when it comes to defensive scoring is an encouraging signal for the workforce’s probabilities to win a wide-open division and qualify for the postseason in head coach Jonathan Gannon and basic supervisor Monti Offenfort‘s second yr on the helm.
Bailey didn’t appear to be in Arizona’s linebacker plans when obtainable, so his absence won’t be felt to a big diploma whereas he serves the ban. If he stays with the group over the approaching weeks, although, he shall be an choice to see enjoying time in Week 18 and/or the playoffs ought to the Cardinals proceed their run of current success.