WRMurphy, DB Bailey leave Tennessee’s football team

KNOXVILLE, TENN. (AP) » Reserve MILWAUKEE (AP) » An attorney wide receiver Jordan Murphy and for Bucks guard Sterling Brown defensive back Terrell Bailey have says Milwaukee’s $400,000 offer left Tennessee’s football team. to settle Brown’s lawsuit against

Tennessee coach Jeremy the city over his arrest last year is Pruitt said Wednesday during insufficient because it doesn’t inthe Southeastern Conference clude an admission of guilt. coaches’ teleconference that Attorney Mark Thomsen said both players had chosen to leave Wednesday that any settlement the program. would have to include such an

Neither Bailey nor Murphy admission. played Saturday in a 38-30 seaThe city’s Common Council son- opening loss to 26-point unhas given Brown 14 days to acderdog Georgia State. Pruitt cept or decline the settlement offer.saidMondaythatMurphyhad been sick over the last week. Brown contends in his lawsuit

Earlier this week, Murphy’s that police used excessive force Twitter account retweeted a tweet and targeted him because he is poking fun at how Georgia State black when they confronted him upset Tennessee and received for parking illegally in a hand$950,000 to play in the game. The icapped-accessible spot in Janretweet was later deleted. uary 2018. He was talking with

Murphy, a junior from Hatofficers while waiting for his citiesburg, Mississippi, played 10 tation when the situation escagames and caught 11 passes for lated.

155 yards and one touchdown last season.