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Tony Sparano is scheduled to interview Monday for the Kansas City Chiefs' offensive line coaching job, league sources told ESPN.

Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam III and team executives are headed back to Cleveland from Arizona and will start their coaching search over again without Oregon coach Chip Kelly in the mix, sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen.

Oregon coach Chip Kelly and the Cleveland Browns wrapped up seven hours of meetings Friday that were characterized as "very positive," though Kelly will proceed to interview with the Bills and the Eagles, sources said.

Before his scheduled interview with the Arizona Cardinals, former Eagles coach Andy Reid first interviewed on Wednesday in Philadelphia with Kansas City Chiefs officials, according to league sources.

As NFL owners and executives revisit the success of college coaches at the pro level, Penn State's Bill O'Brien may be on more short lists than Oregon's Chip Kelly and that would include the Browns and Eagles, according to league sources.

Eagles tackle Jason Peters and Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs, two All-Pro players who have suffered offseason Achilles injuries, may lose millions because both fall under the "Nonfootball injury" provision of the collective bargaining agreement.

Despite statements to the contrary, the Cleveland Browns intend to hire an offensive coordinator to allow Pat Shurmur to put more focus on his head coaching duties in 2012, according to team sources.

The NFL and NFLPA agree that concussion monitoring is a high priority, with a mission to be more proactive at all game sites, but the two sides offer conflicting versions of a plan to place a medical observer inside the NFL command center.

Free agent wide receiver Plaxico Burress said he will meet with his former coach, Tom Coughlin, on Wednesday about a potential return to the Giants.

As recently-fired defensive coordinator Sean McDermott has emerged as a candidate for the same position with the Broncos and Panthers, the Eagles are in discussions with a number of candidates, including Jim L. Mora as McDermott's replacement.

The days of NFL players opting not to wear thigh pads or knee pads may end with this year's Super Bowl, according to league and team sources.

Less than a week after Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid said that defensive coordinator Sean McDermott would return in 2011, the Eagles have fired McDermott.

The NFL Players Association is on the brink of filing a collusion grievance against NFL owners based on a case it has been building since only one of 216 restricted free agents was signed to an offer sheet during the offseason, according to union sources.

NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith reinforced the union's concern Saturday about excessive fines for violent hits and pledged to be aggressive in challenging some of the monetary penalties.

The NFL will announce by Wednesday that, effective this weekend, even first-time offenders face suspension for "devastating hits" and "head shots," according to the league's senior vice president of football operations.

After Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid made the call by naming Michael Vick his starting quarterback on Tuesday, Vick received an equally encouraging call from the owner of his former team, Arthur Blank of the Atlanta Falcons.