The Facts: Six weeks after Hill was suspended from the team, amid an ongoing child abuse probe, prosecutors are no longer actively working the criminal case. “It is not an active investigation,” Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said in an email Friday morning. “As in any case, if we receive additional evidence we reevaluate.”

Diehards Line: Howe also told the Star that his comments made in an April 24 news conference “still hold true.” At that time, he said he believed the 3-year-old son of Hill and fiancee Crystal Espinal had been hurt but couldn’t prove who did it. Two days after that news conference, and after a taped conversation of Hill and Espinal talking about their son and how he got hurt surfaced, HC Andy Reid said the criminal investigation had been re-opened. When asked Thursday if the case had ever been reopened, Howe did not respond. But Hill’s attorney, Trey Pettlon, said Friday the criminal case had been closed for a while. Though the criminal investigation is no longer active, Hill and Espinal do have an ongoing case with the Kansas Department for Children and Families. Generally speaking, cases like these can take weeks, months or even years for the families to receive the services they need. In a May press conference, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league was waiting for permission to interview Hill for its own investigation. That directive stems from the child welfare case, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Friday. ... Stay tuned.