NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Titans still hope that Kenny Britt will be sufficiently recovered from knee surgeries to contribute early in the season.

But he's not ready yet and starting him out on the PUP list gives the team the most choices down the road.

“If for some reason there’s another setback of some kind, whatever that may be, that you have yourself in position that we have more options, if you get to that, worst-case scenario,” coach Mike Munchak said. “If anytime you get into anything, not just in football, if you’re going to get into something, you should always know what the worst case can happen here…

“If he’s not healthy, that gives us the option to keep him on [PUP] for six more weeks rather than losing him for the year [on IR] or have to make him part of the active roster. It just gives you more options. How it’ll play out in the next six, seven weeks with his knees? There is nothing showing us to think that he couldn’t be back and ready to play at some level early in the season.”

But following a recent arrest at Fort Campbell, Ky., Britt is likely to face league discipline. It’s the eighth time he’s been involved in something requiring police attention since he’s been with the team. Commissioner Roger Goodell met with him last year and basically put him on warning.

The popular question has been whether any league suspension could be served while Britt was on PUP or out hurt, or if the suspension clock wouldn't start until he'd be missing games he would be in line to play.

A league spokesman tells me any suspension is served even if a player is inactive, on PUP or on IR.

I expect Britt will be physically ready to play on Sept. 9 when the season starts and that he will be suspended for a few games that will wind up providing him with additional “recovery time.” But if he is still on PUP or if he’s inactive, those games would still count as serving a suspension.

That would also be the case if he’s on IR, but barring another major injury, there wouldn’t be a reason for the Titans to shift him from PUP to IR at that stage.

Here are the stories on Britt out of Friday’s news conference from The Tennessean and the Nashville City Paper.

I’ll be at the first practice of camp today and expect Britt will talk with us after it's over.