{"id":27370,"date":"2026-05-01T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/27370\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:28:40","slug":"toronto-argonauts-sign-two-time-all-conference-defender-malachi-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/27370\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Argonauts sign two-time All-Conference defender Malachi Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1825\" height=\"1175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0429-Bailey.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Alcorn State Athletics<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Argonauts have signed American defensive lineman Malachi Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-two, 278-pound defender recorded 22 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 0.5 sacks over 11 games at the University of Arizona in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta native previously played at Alcorn State University, where he was twice named first-team All-Southwestern Athletic Conference. Over three seasons, he made 128 total tackles, 46.5 tackles for loss, 28 sacks, two forced fumbles, and four fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey started his collegiate career at at Independence Community College.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Toronto finished third in the East Division standings with a 5-13 record, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2019. Mike Miller was promoted to the role of head coach following the departure of Ryan Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777620520_932_76de80683d65348bb5b5c33259db26f7d6d1a64106b6ba6e2dcd31c5650d324a.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3DownNation-Wordmark-v3-3.svg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Alcorn State Athletics The Toronto Argonauts have signed American defensive lineman Malachi Bailey. The six-foot-two, 278-pound defender&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[349,350,13063,7373,7374,6980,351,352,354,13064,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-27370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-3down","9":"tag-3downnation","10":"tag-alcorn-state","11":"tag-argonauts","12":"tag-argos","13":"tag-arizona","14":"tag-canadian","15":"tag-cfl","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-malachi-bailey","18":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}