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1Kyle Orton is 26-12 in his career as a starter, including 5-0 this season. Yet, the Broncos are not talking long-term deal with Orton, who is making $995,000 this season in the last year of his deal. The league is operating on an unsettled labor agreement, and Orton’s market value is unestablished. 2Even though Terrell Owens has had the worst five-game stretch of his 14-year career, with 12 catches for 202 yards and a touchdown, the Bills are more likely to part with Roscoe Parrish at the trade deadline than with Owens. No one is likely to give the Bills anything of value in return for Owens, even if they wanted to trade him.3The Chiefs would part with linebacker Derrick Johnson, a former first-round pick, who has been persona non grata around coach Todd Haley. Journeyman Demorrio Williams is playing ahead of Johnson, who did not dirty his uniform against the Cowboys. The ex-Longhorn needs a change of scenery and a new scheme. His contract expires after this season, but if next season is uncapped, he would not become an unrestricted free agent for another season.4If Brady Quinn takes 70 percent of Cleveland’s snaps this season, he will trigger $10.9 million in salary escalators over the remaining two years of his contract. He will trigger $5.9 million for 2011 if he takes 70 percent of the snaps in 2010. But if Quinn couldn’t get on the field in a game Derek Anderson completed only two passes, it is obvious he no longer is in Eric Mangini’s plans. 5Jevon Kearse, 33, has never lived up to his rookie season, when he had 14.5 sacks. He had one sack and nine tackles in the first four games before the Titans made him inactive for last week’s game. He was replaced in the starting lineup by second-year defensive end William Hayes. The move appears permanent, which could signal the end of the road for Kearse in the NFL.
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