Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid have spoken of their sadness after former Kansas City Chief Allen Bailey died at the age of 37.<\/p>\n
The defensive end was found dead at his home in Florida on Tuesday by his wife. He is believed to have died from natural causes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s terrible, especially with all the good he [did],\u201d Chiefs head coach Reid said. \u201cHe\u2019s got a family and that\u2019s a sad deal. I know his father passed away young, too. It makes you sick when it happens to somebody that young \u2026 He was one of my favorite players, a great kid. I\u2019m just sorry to see that happened to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mahomes spent two seasons with Bailey after the quarterback was drafted by the Chiefs in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell this story every year: He was the first person I saw when I stepped into the locker room after the draft,\u201d Mahomes said. \u201cI see Allen Bailey and I\u2019m like, \u2018This isn\u2019t [college] anymore.\u2019 It was surreal to see him.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, it\u2019s terrible to hear the news. A great teammate \u2013 he\u2019s one of those glue guys on the team. He makes plays. He\u2019s not necessarily a superstar, but the guy that kind of makes everything go. We\u2019re praying for his family. [As] teammates, we\u2019ve talked and we know that we\u2019re going to do whatever we can to support those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bailey grew up on Sapelo Island, a barrier island off Georgia only accessible by boat and with a population of fewer than 70 people. \u201cI\u2019m from a place a little out of the normal,\u201d Bailey told Distraction magazine in 2018<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s relatively quiet; no stop signs, no traffic lights. It\u2019s mostly dirt roads.\u201d<\/p>\n From there he played college football for Miami before becoming a third-round draft pick for the Chiefs in 2011. He played for the team for eight seasons before spending the final two years of his career with the Atlanta Falcons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid have spoken of their sadness after former Kansas City Chief Allen Bailey died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-890046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}