Indiana Linebacker Aaron Casey Invited To NFL Scouting Combine
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The NFL released the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine list Tuesday, which included Indiana linebacker Aaron Casey.
Casey was the lone Hoosier invited, and he's one of 30 total linebackers that will perform in front of NFL scouts in hopes of boosting their draft stock. Two former Hoosiers, quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and tight end AJ Barner, were also invited to the combine after competing against each other in the 2024 national championship for Washington and Michigan, respectively.
The combine will take place in Indianapolis from February 26 through March 4. Live coverage of the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine begins Feb. 29 on NFL Network and NFL+. NFL Network will air live drills with linebackers on Feb. 29 at 3 p.m. ET.
The media selected Casey to the first-team All-Big Ten defense in 2023, while the conference's coaches picked him to the second team. He was also chosen by the Indiana staff to wear the No. 44 jersey during the 2022 and 2023 seasons in honor of George Taliaferro, who played at Indiana from 1945-48 and later became the first African American drafted by the National Football League.
Indiana's Aaron Casey (44) celebrates a goal line stop during the Hoosiers' game against Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.
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Casey was picked as a team captain heading into his sixth year at Indiana in 2023, and he led the Hoosiers in a variety of ways. Casey recorded a team-high 109 total tackles, which is the most tackles in a single season by a Hoosier since Tegray Scales in 2016. It's also the second consecutive year that he led Indiana in tackles.
Casey led the Big Ten and ranked second nationally with 20 tackles for loss, which is tied for fourth in Indiana history in a single season. For his career, Casey made 36 tackles for loss, which ranks eighth in program history and one shy of his former teammate, Micah McFadden.
And now, Casey will attempt to join the likes of Scales, McFadden, Marcelino McCrary-Ball and Cam Jones as recent Indiana linebackers to earn snaps in the NFL.
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