News and notes to get you ready for Week 13 …
1. We normally keep it on the field in this space, but the Kareem Hunt story is still new, and it’s a chance to take you through how the NFL and Chiefs went through the process of investigating Hunt, and coming up empty in the offseason. This started, after the February incident, with the NFL putting its on-the-ground private detective in Cleveland in motion (the league keeps two on retainer in every market as a supplement to its security department, and those are usually ex-state police or ex-FBI with local law-enforcement connections).