Titans’ Conklin tore ACL in loss

Tennessee head coach Mike Mularkey said right tackle Jack Conklin tore his left anterior cruciate ligament Saturday night and likely will start training camp on the physically unable to perform list.

Mularkey said Sunday that Conklin will have surgery to repair the ACL within the next two weeks.

Conklin, the eighth pick overall from Michigan State in 2016, was hurt with 3:14 left in the first quarter of the Titans’ 35-14 loss to New England. Patriots lineman Malcolm Brown appeared to roll up on Conklin’s leg on a run play.

Mularkey says the timing of Conklin’s injury is unfortunate heading into the offseason. Conklin was an All-Pro as a rookie for Tennessee.

Tight end Jonnu Smith hurt his right medial collateral ligament, but Mularkey says he won’t need surgery. Bills hire coordinator: Buffalo hired Alabama assistant coach Brian Daboll to be its offensive coordinator.

Head coach Sean McDermott announced Daboll’s hiring two days after firing Rick Dennison.

Daboll, 42, most recently was the offensive coordinator for national champion Alabama. It was the sixth time he was part of a national title-winning team’s coaching staff.

Before joining the Crimson Tide last season, Daboll was the tight-ends coach for Super Bowl-champion New England. He has 17 seasons of NFL coaching experience, including stints as the offensive coordinator for Cleveland (2009-10), Miami (2011) and Kansas City (2012).

Daboll has ties to McDermott, serving as an assistant at William & Mary when McDermott was a senior safety in 1997. Daboll also has western New York roots, having graduated from St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, a few miles from the Bills’ facility.