IN A RELATED STORY............

Lance Briggs is a new daddy

He's also a defendant.

In a related, related story (relatively speaking) and novel, tricky legal maneuver, Briggs has declared Tribbett a "Franchise Mother", which means that he only has to pay child support for one year, the average salary of the top five twenty one year old unwed mothers in the league, after which mother and child are free to negotiate a new deal with a linebacker to be named later.