The Chargers are staying in San Diego for the 2016 season in hopes of negotiating a stadium deal with the city.

Chairman Dean Spanos released a statement on Friday:

Today I decided our team will stay in San Diego for the 2016 season and I hope for the long term in a new stadium.

I have met with Mayor (Kevin) Faulconer and Supervisor (Ron) Roberts and I look forward to working closely with them and the business community to resolve our stadium dilemma. We have an option and an agreement with the Los Angeles Rams to go to Inglewood in the next year, but my focus is on San Diego.

Spanos referenced an agreement that would enable the Chargers to become the Rams' tenants when the new stadium in Inglewood opens, tentatively scheduled for 2019. The Chargers and Rams negotiated the deal for two weeks before coming to an agreement on Friday morning, a source involved with the process told NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport.

Accepting that deal allows Spanos to restart negotiations for a new stadium in San Diego, leaving Los Angeles as a fallback option. If Spanos wants to keep the Inglewood stadium possibility open, he must exercise his relocation option by Jan. 15, 2017.

"We are very supportive of the decision by Dean Spanos to continue his efforts in San Diego and work with local leaders to develop a permanent stadium solution," Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "NFL ownership has committed $300 million to assist in the cost of building a new stadium in San Diego. I have pledged the league's full support in helping Dean to fulfill his goal."

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was pleased knowing he'll be playing in San Diego next season.

"Everybody, all the children and wife and myself are all pretty fired up to know at least another season and hopefully more," Rivers told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Earlier this month, the league offered $100 million -- in addition to the $200 million loan -- to assist in stadium solutions in their respective home markets.

"I am committed to looking at this with a fresh perspective and new sense of possibility," Spanos said. "The message is we want to be here in San Diego."

Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict's suspension appeal has been denied.

Appeals officer Derrick Brooks has upheld Burfict's three-game suspension for repeated violations of safety-related playing rules, NFL Media's Albert Breer reported, via a league spokesman.

Burfict, his agent and coach Marvin Lewis met with Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent after his appeal was denied on Thursday, according to ESPN's Dan Graziano.

That meeting occurred at Burfict's request, per Graziano, to discuss the linebacker's behavior and how to avoid future NFL punishment.

Burfict's internecine hit on Antonio Brown in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs had wide-ranging repercussions throughout the postseason. After outgaining the Broncos in total yards, 396-324, Steelers fans were left wondering if they would have emerged victorious in the Divisional Round had Brown not been concussed.

Although the season-altering blow to Brown was the impetus for discipline, Burfict's history as a repeat offender factored into the length of the suspension.

He led the league in unnecessary roughness penalties this season and was flagged for 22 "flagrant" penalties in 37 games at Arizona State, which contributed to his slide through the 2012 NFL Draft. He had previously been fined four times in 2015 alone for safety-related violations.

That includes close to $70,000 for three fines stemming from three different plays during the Bengals' 33-20 loss to the Steelers in mid-December. Including his Week 8 tackle that ended running back Le'Veon Bell's season, Burfict was single-handedly responsible for knocking Pittsburgh's three best players out of games this season.

Going back to 2014, the Panthers called for his suspension after he was caught intentionally twisting the ankles of Cam Newton and Greg Olsen after the whistle.

Burfict is an impact player and a necessary tone-setter on Cincinnati's hard-hitting defense. If he doesn't clean up his playing style, though, this won't be the last time the Bengals have to do without his services for a stretch of the season.

After 11 seasons, two Super Bowl wins, two Pro Bowls and 592 career catches, Steelers tight end Heath Miller has retired.

The Steelers made an official announcement on Friday afternoon.

Miller likely walks off the field and into consideration for the Steelers' secret cadre of unofficially retired numbers, a list that is currently populated by No. 12 (Terry Bradshaw), No. 32 (Franco Harris), No. 36 (Jerome Bettis), No. 52 (Mike Webster), No. 58 (Jack Lambert), No. 63 (Dermontti Dawson) and No. 75 (Joe Greene). Ernie Stautner's No. 70 is officially retired. Miller walks away as the franchise's leader in receptions, receiving yards (6,569) and touchdowns (45) by a tight end. His reception total is second best of any player in Steelers franchise history and fourth in touchdowns.

There are only 12 tight ends in league history with more than 6,000 receiving yards, and Miller is one of them.

A picture of dependability, Miller only missed eight regular season games in 11 years. The former first-round pick out of Virginia started 167 of his 168 career games and never missed a postseason start. His legacy as one of Ben Roethlisberger's favorite targets is all but secured.

The news likely will send Pittsburgh hunting for a replacement in free agency or via the draft. The team picked Jesse James out of Penn State in the fifth round last year and James finished his rookie campaign with eight catches. Matt Spaeth, 32, is still under contract through the 2016 season.