Indianapolis Colts sign VCU basketball player Mo Alie-Cox

The Kansas City Chiefs showed interest in former VCU basketball player Mo Alie-Cox, but the Colts struck first by signing him to a contract.

Amid the myriad pre-draft visits taken by the Kansas City Chiefs scouts and front office personnel was a trip to see a special free agent: former VCU basketball player Mo Alie-Cox. With his size and athleticism, he profiled well as a potential tight end like other basketball players before him. Unfortunately if John Dorsey, the Chiefs general manager was interested, he lost out to the Indianapolis Colts.

Alie-Cox is an interesting player and project for the Colts, who already traded away Dwayne Allen this offseason. They signed Jack Doyle as the primary starter, but Alie-Cox can sit among inactives as a long-term project in the mold of a Demetrius Harris.

What’s interesting about the team that won the rights to Alie-Cox is that Chris Ballard is the Colts new general manager and served for the last few years alongside Dorsey in the Chiefs front office. Dorsey’s tactics apparently rubbed off on Ballard who now has his own basketball-player-turned-tight-end project to coach up.

Demetrius Harris, formerly at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is not the only former basketball player to play tight end for the Chiefs. Tony Gonzalez, the team’s all time leader in receptions and receiving yards, was a former college basketball player at the University of California.