Jay Cutler Lifestyle

Tailback Larry Johnson and the Kansas City Chiefs reportedly have reached a settlement, resolving Johnson's challenge of the Chiefs' suspension of him for conduct detrimental to the team. ESPN reported that under the terms of the settlement, Johnson remains suspended until Nov. 9 but will lose only one paycheck instead of two. He is missing only one game because the Chiefs have a bye. Johnson reportedly filed a grievance Friday against the Chiefs contesting the suspension imposed by the team. Through the NFL Players Association, Johnson requested an expedited hearing and an arbitrator would have ruled on Johnson's appeal of the suspension. That becomes unnecessary now, with the settlement.

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Browns are not ruling out using Joshua Cribbs, their kick returner and wide receiver, at running back. Cribbs already gets chances to run with the ball out of the wildcat formation. "You can run those types of plays with a guy like that, but it takes time," Browns Coach Eric Mangini said, according to the Plain Dealer. "It takes a lot of work by the player and the group to get that. It's something that we've done a little bit of. Josh has played a lot of different roles with the wildcat and receiver, so you have to build the package as you go."

A Tampa-area radio station retracted a report that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are for sale because of financial losses suffered by the Glazer family, which owns the team. The station, WDAE, said in a written statement that on-air comments by one of its hosts were "factually incorrect." The written statement, posted on the station's Web site, also said: "We sincerely apologize for those statements and hereby issue a full retraction." The Buccaneers had denied the report.

Tailback Larry Johnson filed a grievance against the Kansas City Chiefs contesting his suspension imposed by the team, according to the NFL's Web site. Through the NFL Players Association, Johnson requested an expedited hearing and an arbitrator could rule on Johnson's appeal of the suspension next week, according to the league's Web site. The Kansas City Star reported that in addition to appealing his suspension, Johnson is discussing a possible settlement with the Chiefs that could make a hearing unnecessary.

Houston Texans Coach Gary Kubiak pronounced wide receiver Andre Johnson "ready to go" this weekend. Johnson suffered a bruised lung last weekend and didn't practice Wednesday. But he did practice Thursday and Friday. "Andre looked great," Kubiak said, according to the Texans' Web site. "He's ready to go. If there are no setbacks between now and game day, he'll be ready to go."

The Minnesota Vikings will be without cornerback Antoine Winfield in Sunday's game at Green Bay. Winfield was listed as out on Friday's official injury report. He is to miss a second straight game because of a foot injury.

Tailback Brian Westbrook didn't participate in the Philadelphia Eagles' practice Friday. The Eagles have called Westbrook's availability for Sunday's game against the New York Giants a game-time decision. He is listed as questionable on the team's official injury report. Westbrook hasn't practiced all week after suffering a concussion during Monday night's triumph over the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field. "These things take time and they're all different," Eagles Coach Andy Reid said at a news conference Friday, according to the club's Web site. "So we'll just see how it works here."

According to the Associated Press, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association, are scheduled to testify before a Congressional subcommittee during a hearing Tuesday that is to examine the case in which court decisions have kept the league from enforcing its suspensions of two Minnesota Vikings players who tested positive last year for a banned diuretic. It will be the second Capitol Hill appearance in less than a week for Goodell and Smith. Both testified before the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing Wednesday on the rate and severity of brain injuries suffered by NFL players. Tuesday's hearing is to come before the House subcommittee on commerce, trade and consumer protection.

This isn't the only NFL city with discontented fans. According to the Associated Press, some Cleveland Browns fans are trying to organize a protest by which customers would stay out of their seats--perhaps remaining temporarily on concourses or outside the stadium--for the opening kickoff of a Nov. 16 game at home against the Baltimore Ravens on a Monday night. "We're tired of losing," season-ticket holder Mike Randall, one of the organizers of the planned protest, told the AP. "We're tired of the booing, of seeing fans leave in the fourth quarter. There are fans who have had tickets for 30 years who are turning their seats in because they can't take it anymore. So many fans are fed up." According to the AP, Browns owner Randy Lerner said in an e-mail: "On the grounds of frustration and irritation with performance, then that's the medicine I (we) are going to

Tailback Brian Westbrook didn't participate in the Philadelphia Eagles' practices Wednesday and Thursday. His playing status for Sunday's game against the New York Giants at Lincoln Financial Field is to be updated after the Eagles' practice Friday. Westbrook left Monday night's victory over the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field after suffering a concussion. His injury and the possibility of him returning to play this weekend were mentioned several times during Wednesday's hearing by the House Judiciary Committee regarding the rate and severity of brain injuries suffered by NFL players.