Report: Ex-Chiefs DE Allen Bailey, Falcons Agree to 2-Year, $10.5M Contract

The Atlanta Falcons reportedly signed defensive end Allen Bailey to a two-year deal Monday.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reported the news and noted the contract is worth $10.5 million with $6 million of it, including $3.5 million guaranteed, coming this season.

Bailey entered the league in 2011 as a third-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs and spent his first eight seasons with the AFC West team.

The Miami product played all 16 games for the Chiefs last season and finished with 38 tackles, a career-best six sacks, four fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles. It was an impressive effort and suggested the 30-year-old still has enough left in the tank to help Atlanta's pass rush in 2019 and 2020.

The addition is all the more important after Ian Rapoport of NFL.com reported Michael Bennett is out indefinitely after he suffered a broken ankle in Monday's practice.

Atlanta was just 7-9 last season after reaching the playoffs the previous two years and will need to be better pressuring the quarterback if it is going to compete again in the NFC South. It finished tied for a mere 22nd in the league with 37 sacks in 2018, which is a troubling number in a division that features Drew Brees and Cam Newton.

Bailey will help the Falcons improve their pass rush and is someone who figures to be comfortable in pressure-packed games after helping lead the Chiefs to the AFC Championship Game last season.