Jay Cutler is leaning toward staying in broadcasting and not joining the Miami Dolphins, sources close to the situation told ESPN on Saturday.

Although Cutler became intrigued by the possibility of reuniting with Dolphins coach Adam Gase in the immediate wake of Ryan Tannehill’s knee injury, his continued contemplation is swaying him back in the direction of staying retired, sources told ESPN.

• Jay Cutler and Adam Gase worked well together in Chicago, says Bears OL Kyle Long, and that would make a reunion in Miami possible.

Tannehill suffered a left knee injury in Thursday’s scrimmage that may require season-ending surgery.

Until Saturday, Cutler had been in direct contact with Gase, giving a clear sense of his interest in playing for him, according to sources. The more Cutler considers it, however, the more he questions whether a return to football is what he wants, sources said.

One source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that Cutler is “really struggling to leave his family.”

Should Tannehill need surgery, Gase could go into a more passionate sales-pitch mode to pull Cutler back into the mix. Barring such a scenario, the Dolphins will likely need to start looking in a different place — or settle on backup Matt Moore — to handle their starting quarterback duties.

RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett came off the PUP list Friday and is on track to be ready for the start of the regular season.

“I’m pretty much ready to go,” Lockett said. “If we had a game tomorrow, I’d play in it.”

Lockett suffered fractures to the tibia and fibula in his right leg in December. He underwent surgery and spent Christmas and New Year’s in the hospital.

Lockett spent the entire offseason in Seattle rehabbing and said he’s been running for the last three months. He didn’t participate in all aspects of Friday’s practice but has no doubts about being ready for Week 1.

“One of the things that I thought about was when I was a kid, I had a dog,” Lockett said. “When you train him, you’ve got to keep him in a little cage. I felt like I was stuck in a cage for eight months after I broke my leg. So as soon as they let me go today, I didn’t know what to do. So I was just running around, having fun, being a little kid again.”

Lockett caught 41 balls for 597 yards in 15 games last season, but he was playing at less than 100 percent for much of the year because of a knee injury suffered early in the season. He’s expected to compete for a starting job in 2017.

CANTON, Ohio — Football season is back, with the Dallas Cowboys taking on the Arizona Cardinals in the Hall of Fame Game. Well, sort of.

While Cardinals coach Bruce Arians has already said his starters won’t play Thursday, Cowboys coach Jason Garrett has made no such declaration. But Garrett has said he and the Dallas coaches are treating this game like the intrasquad Blue-White scrimmage. So the best chance to see Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, Dez Bryant, Jason Witten, Sean Lee and almost all of the other regulars will come in pregame warm-ups.

That doesn’t mean there won’t be anything worth watching.

“Young players,” owner and general manager Jerry Jones said. “I’m really anxious to see how they account for themselves in game-like conditions.”

It’s not just the defensive rookies who will warrant watching. Wide receiver Noah Brown, another sixth-round pick, has turned some heads with plays early in camp. Since Brown played at Ohio State, he figures to hear some cheers when he takes the field.

PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger has cited health concerns and family as potential reasons to leave prime years on the field and retire sooner rather than later.

Then, when addressing the media Wednesday, Roethlisberger offered a counterargument of sorts with this sneaky-significant quote:

“If those guys in the front play as well as they’ve been playing, getting sacked 17 times in a year, that might keep me around a little longer,” Roethlisberger said about his offensive line.

The Steelers’ line is a catalyst for a late-30s Roethlisberger push beyond obvious, “Football 101” reasons. Roethlisberger is basically a sixth lineman.

Every day, he’s with Alejandro Villanueva, Ramon Foster, Maurkice Pouncey, David DeCastro and Marcus Gilbert. When the team finishes walk-throughs at St. Vincent College, those six are coming up the hill together.

Roethlisberger had one Steeler at his summer camp: Pouncey.

By saying this, Roethlisberger is informally placing his career in lockstep with the current nucleus up front. And all five of those linemen are set to play at least two more years together. All of the starting linemen, save for Foster, are under contract until at least 2019, according to ESPN’s Roster Management System. Foster becomes a free agent after the 2018 season.

The Steelers spent high draft picks on Pouncey, DeCastro and Gilbert, then developed undrafted players Foster and Villanueva into productive starters. Roethlisberger calls the line “probably the most important part of this team,” and the money reflects that. The starting five comprises $36.1 million of the team’s 2017 salary cap. And the production lies in the franchise-record-setting yardage pace set by Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell in recent years.