Broncos acquire vet corner Taylor

The Broncos signed cornerback Jamar Taylor on Tuesday and released offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio.

Taylor, 28, has 41 starts among his 74 career games (three interceptions) for Miami, Cleveland and Arizona. He was cut by the Cardinals on Nov. 21.

Taylor will provide experience and depth to a cornerback group that lost Chris Harris (leg fracture) for at least the next three games.

Kouandjio was cut by the Broncos after training camp and re-signed on Nov. 20. In two games, he played eight snaps as an extra offensive lineman.

Bills release Benjamin.

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Buffalo Bills have cut Kelvin Benjamin with four weeks left in the season in an indication of how poorly the receiver has underperformed during his 13 months with the team.

Benjamin had just 23 catches on 62 targets for 354 yards and one touchdown, and knocked for several drops as well as running poor routes this season. That wasn’t the type of production the Bills were expecting from the 2014 first-round draft pick they acquired in a trade with Carolina on Oct. 31, 2017.

The move made on Tuesday is also an indication of how Benjamin has been surpassed on the depth chart by Zay Jones, rookie Robert Foster and Isaiah McKenzie.

Benjamin is in the final year of his contract.

Kaepernick not likely to sign with Redskins.

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Redskins coach Jay Gruden says the team “talked about and discussed” bringing in quarterback Colin Kaepernick for a tryout “but we will probably go in a different direction.”

Gruden told reporters during a conference call Tuesday that would there have been “a greater possibility” of considering Kaepernick if the Redskins were in need of a QB in Week 1 rather than at this stage of the season.

Washington lost Colt McCoy to a broken right leg in a 28-13 loss at the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night that dropped the Redskins’ record to 6-6. McCoy had replaced Alex Smith as the starting quarterback after Smith broke his right leg last month.

Official placed on leave.

The NFL placed official Roy Ellison on administrative leave while it investigates an accusation that he called Bills defensive end Jerry Hughes a vulgar name during Buffalo’s game at Miami on Sunday.

Hughes confronted Ellison in the tunnel near the locker room following Buffalo’s 21-17 loss, and video of the incident shows him accusing the umpire of using a derogatory term. Hughes waved his index finger and shouted “I’ll catch you. I’ll catch you, guaranteed,” before being pulled away by team officials.