Daily Links – That’s a lot of free agents

Larry Johnson completes the dysfunctional AFC West trifecta with his homophobic tweets and slurs over the past few days. Now there’s talk of him being released, even though Johnson is less than 100 yards away from the Chiefs rushing franchise record. People forget, though, that it would take L.J. 3 years to reach that summit. Here’s some more linkage for your Tuesday:

• Free agents after this season: Kyle Orton, Brandon Marshall, Elvis Dumervil, Chris Kuper, Ben Hamilton, and Tony Scheffler.  [Denver Post]
• Spencer Larsen makes his triumphant return to practice.  [BroncoTalk]
• Orton’s lack of interceptions continues to show why he’s so valuable.  [Colorado Springs Gazette]

• The Ravens have dug themselves into quite a hole.  [Baltimore Sun]
• Finally healthy, they’ll try to dig out of it.  [B.Sun]
• First there was running back by committee.  Now teams hardly care to run it at all anymore.  [DPO]
• Horvil likes the move at punter.  [Horvil Tiki]
• Video: Michael Strahan talks about Elvis Dumervil‘s pursuit of his sack record.  [ESPN]
• The Saints are threatening the Patriots season-points record set two years ago.  [DPO]
• The Vince Young era begins in Tennessee… again.  [ProFootballTalk]