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INDIANAPOLIS--Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant is not expected to participate in the workouts at the NFL scouting combine. Bryant, considered among the top wide receivers available in the draft, is suffering from a hamstring injury. He is to work out for scouts at his pro day next month. But Bryant is in attendance and undoubtedly will have to answer questions by NFL teams about his suspension by the NCAA for most of this past season for lying to investigators about his contact with Deion Sanders. Bryant said Friday that he thought the penalty was "kind of harsh" but acknowledged that he made "a bad mistake." Said Bryant: "I apologized for it. I'm back on track.... I didn't get depressed. I just kept my head high and kept moving on.... I took it as a man. There's nothing I can do about it."

INDIANAPOLIS--Tennessee Titans Coach Jeff Fisher said that he and other NFL coaches will adjust if the league curtails teams' offseason practices and limits hitting between players in some practices during training camp and the regular season. The prospective measures are being discussed as another possible step to try to reduce the risk of players suffering concussions. "Coaches have one thing in mind and that's to win," Fisher, the co-chairman of the NFL's competition committee, said Friday at the scouting combine. "But we don't want to injure our players." On Titans-related matters, Fisher said that Vince Young will be the team's starting quarterback next season. He also said that the club would like to re-sign Kevin Mawae as a backup. But Mawae apparently plans to test the free agent market to attempt to find a starting job elsewhere after being told by the Titans that he no longer would be

Mike Shanahan said that the Washington Redskins plan to tender Jason Campbell , their starting quarterback the past 3½ seasons, before free agency begins on March 5.

INDIANAPOLIS--California running back Jahvid Best said Friday he is telling NFL teams there are no lingering effects from the concussion that he suffered in a scary fall on a touchdown leap during his final collegiate game. "They just want to make sure it's all cleared up," Best said at the scouting combine. "I've been blessed. Thank God it is cleared up." Best missed the final four games of Cal's season, then decided to bypass his final season of college eligibility and enter the NFL draft. He said Friday that he stopped suffering concussion-related symptoms within three weeks after suffering the injury. He was assured by doctors within a few days of being hurt, he said, that the injury would not have longterm consequences to his football career. He vowed that he won't change his playing style because of the injury. "I'm not worried about that," Best said. "I know

INDIANAPOLIS--Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount said he is telling NFL teams that ask him about his suspension for punching a Boise State player following the opening game of this past season that he regrets what he did and he learned from the incident. "I basically told them I overreacted," Blount said Friday at the NFL scouting combine. "It was the heat of the moment. I shouldn't have reacted the way I did.... I embarrassed myself and my team.... Everything that happened on September 3rd was a one-time thing that will never happen again." Blount initially was suspended for the remainder of the season for punching Boise State defensive end Byron Hout on the field following the game after Hout had tapped Blount on his shoulder and said something to him. But he was allowed to keep his scholarship and continued practicing with the team, and was reinstated after missing

INDIANAPOLIS--Tim Tebow seems to draw plenty of attention wherever he goes, and that certainly was the case here Friday at the NFL scouting combine as reporters crowded around a podium in the interview room when it was Tebow's turn to speak. The former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback for the University of Florida arrived at the combine while still in the process of overhauling his throwing mechanics in an attempt to convince NFL decision-makers that he is ready to thrive at the professional level. Some talent evaluators seemed convinced that Tebow's delivery was too long and slow for him to succeed against the faster defenses that he will face in the NFL, and his performance at the recent Senior Bowl produced mostly negative reviews. In reaction, Tebow has been working to shorten and quicken his delivery, holding the ball higher to start his throwing motion from behind his head instead of

INDIANAPOLIS--In a year without a salary cap, each NFL team had the opportunity to use an additional transition player tag on one of its potential free agents, along with the one franchise or transition player tag already at its disposal. No teams took advantage of that opportunity. Six teams named franchise players by Thursday's league-wide deadline. The six franchise players are defensive tackles Ryan Pickett of Green Bay, Vince Wilfork of New England and Aubrayo Franklin of San Francisco; Oakland defensive end Richard Seymour; and kickers Olindo Mare of Seattle and Jeff Reed of Pittsburgh. It's the fewest franchise players league-wide since only three were named in 2006. There were seven franchise players in 2007, 12 in 2008 and 14 last year. There were no transition players this time around. It's the third time in the last four years that no transition player tags were used league-wide. But in

UPDATED (1:14 p.m.)... INDIANAPOLIS--DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association, said here Friday that the union will be monitoring teams' spending on players "very closely" once the league's free agent market opens next Friday. There has been speculation that the union will consider filing a collusion charge against the franchise owners if the teams' collective spending on players drops considerably in a year without a salary cap. Smith did not mention the possibility of a collusion charge during his comments to reporters Friday, but he said the union will be paying particularly close attention to the spending of low-revenue teams. The union recently filed a second challenge of the teams' supplemental revenue-sharing program, contending that insufficient funds were transferred from high-revenue franchises to low-revenue clubs under the plan in 2006, 2007 and 2008. "We're going to have a very keen eye on the $20 million that

INDIANAPOLIS -- We can now make heads and tails of the first round of the 2010 draft. Coin flips were conducted Friday morning to determine six picks in the draft. The Jaguars won the 10th pick while the Broncos will get the 11th; the Titans will pick 16th and the 49ers 17th; and the Falcons scored the 19th pick over the Texans.

UPDATED (11:12 a.m.)... INDIANAPOLIS--The Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons won coin flips here Friday to secure higher first-round draft picks. The Jaguars won a flip with the Denver Broncos for the 10th overall choice. The Broncos will select 11th. The Titans prevailed in a coin flip with the San Francisco 49ers for the 16th selection. The 49ers will choose 17th. The Falcons won a flip for the 19th overall pick, with the Houston Texans getting the 20th choice. In each case, the coin flip was needed because the league's usual strength-of-schedule tiebreaking formula failed to break the deadlock.