The Tennessee Titans announced the three newest members of the franchise’s new Ring of Honor - QB Steve McNair, RB Eddie George and TE Frank Wycheck.

The players will be inducted into the Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony of this week’s Monday Night Football game against the Indianapolis Colts. The trio also will be inducted into the Titans/Oilers Hall of Fame.

“More teams were reluctant to do all option and no signing bonus because of the victory the PA won in the Ashley Lelie decision,” Levin said. The Lelie decision, he added, “basically said that once an option bonus is earned by the player it is his to keep no matter what.” That decision was a factor in the negotiations between the Lions and No. 2 pick Calvin Johnson, who sat out nine days of training camp while Cook and the Lions worked on a deal without an option bonus.

Cook, who wanted big guaranteed money for Calvin Johnson, said “it wasn’t really a holdout” because money wasn’t the issue — structure was. Johnson ended up with $27.2 million in guaranteed money.