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AFC South News and Rumors

Arrest made in connection with stabbing of Kenny Britt’s friend

Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com

The good news for Titans receiver Kenny Britt is that someone other than Kenny Britt has been arrested in connection with a recent stabbing of one of Britt’s friends. The bad news for Britt is that police want to talk to Britt, again. Jim Wyatt of the T…

Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com

Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck is set to make $5.5 million this season and has a cap number of $7.5 million, which might be more than the Titans are willing to pay for a backup to Jake Locker. If that’s the case, they may be able to accomplish that …

Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com

Longtime Chiefs guard Will Shields was one of the final 15 modern-era candidates for election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, but he was eliminated before the cut to 10 finalists for the second year in a row. Shields will talk to Erik Kuseli…

ESPN.com

Put stars on a high school prospect and they may stick with him for life. I’m not a big believer in the ability of rating services to accurately project the college career of a high school kid. And like the rest of the NFL world I just saw Jim Harbaugh …

Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com

Titans running back Chris Johnson stirred up some intrigue on Tuesday by suggesting on Twitter that he doesn’t know whether the team will keep him beyond February 9, which would transform $9 million of his $10 million base salary into a fully guaranteed…

Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com

The Raiders are taking a page out of the Jaguars’ playbook, not on the field but in the stands. In what is being termed a “capacity adjustment,” the Raiders are planning to block off many upper-deck seats, CSNBayArea.com reports. The move is reminis…

ESPN.com

Khaled Elsayed of ESPN Insider identified a list of buyer beware free agents to-be, and two of them are out of the AFC South. They don’t qualify as surprises: Texans outside linebacker Connor Barwin and Colts receiver Donnie Avery. Barwin had a contract…

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Having the league’s biggest scoreboards would help make EverBank Field much more of a destination, the Jaguars believe. But how would they pay for them and when would the concept for them that the Jaguars unveiled Tuesday actually come to life? Vito Ste…

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Reading the coverage ... Ranking every roster in the league with Evan Silva of Rotoworld. The AFC’s second-best team comes in at 19th. Houston Texans Joe Flacco isn’t that much better than Matt Schaub, but the gap is growing, says Randy Harvey of the …