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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 16, 2025, 06:00 AM ET

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EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — The Chargers’ new leadership was bold and brash from the moment they took over the franchise last February.

Coach Jim Harbaugh — fresh off a national championship as the head coach at Michigan — said the Chargers would win “multiple championships.” General manager Joe Hortiz doubled down on that, telling reporters he planned to add to his two rings after working two decades in the Baltimore Ravens personnel department.

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 15, 2025, 06:00 PM ET

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EL SEGUNO, Calif. — Days after one of the worst games of Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert‘s career, which included four interceptions in a 32-12 wild-card playoff loss to the Houston Texans, coach Jim Harbaugh blamed himself for Herbert’s performance.

“We did him a disservice and didn’t put him in the positions to be successful,” Harbaugh said. “… But he played like a beast.”

Herbert came into the game with the fewest interceptions in the NFL in the regular season (3) but made uncharacteristically poor decisions

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 15, 2025, 05:07 PM ET

EL SEGUNO, Calif. — Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday that he will have a cardiac ablation this offseason and hip replacement surgery.

Harbaugh, 61, briefly left the Chargers’ Week 6 game against the Denver Broncos after a flare-up with atrial flutter, a type of arrhythmia that causes the heart to beat at an abnormally high rate. Harbaugh wore a heart monitor for two weeks during the season.

Harbaugh went to the locker room, where paramedics treated him. He had an electrocardiogram scan and, eventually, they got his heart

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 12, 2025, 05:53 PM ET

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LOS ANGELES — Chargers outside linebacker Khalil Mack, who will be an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his 11-year career, said Sunday that he is unsure about his football future.

“Man, it’s a lot of different thoughts in my head right now,” Mack, 33, said. “I can’t really speak on a definitive decision in terms of what I’m going to do because I don’t know if I’m going to play football moving forward, so there’s some things I gotta talk through with my wife, spend

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 11, 2025, 11:18 PM ET

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HOUSTON — After one of the worst games of his career in Saturday’s 32-12 playoff loss to the Houston Texans, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert took accountability for his struggles.

“I let the team down,” he said. “… You can’t turn the ball over like that and expect to win. … I just have to be better.”

It was an uncharacteristically lousy game from Herbert. He finished 14-of-32 passing (43.8%), the worst completion percentage in a playoff game by a Charger since Philip Rivers in 2006,

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 11, 2025, 07:35 PM ET

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HOUSTON — Chargers wide receiver Ladd McConkey scored the Chargers’ first touchdown of the game late in the fourth quarter Saturday. On 3rd-and-26, McConkey leaped and snagged a pass over the outstretched arms of cornerback Myles Bryant, bounced off of a tackle and took the catch 86 yards for a touchdown. It was the biggest play of the game for the Chargers offense, which has otherwise been lifeless.

What. A. Play. The @Chargers have life ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/vM5rR4oyO8

— NFL (@NFL) January 12, 2025

The Chargers’ momentum ended there. After the

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 10, 2025, 04:05 PM ET

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Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Quentin Johnston, listed as questionable with a thigh injury and an illness, is “good to go” for Saturday’s playoff game against the Houston Texans, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Johnston is coming off the best game of his career, where he secured 13 catches for 186 yards in the Chargers Week 18 win over the Las Vegas Raiders. Both totals were career-highs for Johnston.

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“He’s been doing it, playing at a high level all season,” Coach Jim Harbaugh

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 9, 2025, 06:00 AM ET

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr.’s eyes welled up with tears as he spoke following the Chargers’ playoff loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars two seasons ago.

“I’ve been playing football for 21 years, and I ain’t ever felt like this,” he said.

It was one of the most embarrassing losses in NFL history, where the Chargers blew a 27-0 lead to the Jacksonville Jaguars in a 31-30 loss. Outside linebacker Joey Bosa lost his temper amid the team’s meltdown, with three

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Kris Rhim, ESPNJan 6, 2025, 10:38 PM ET

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Chargers plan to sign running back Ezekiel Elliott to their practice squad Tuesday pending a physical, a source confirmed to ESPN.

Fox Sports first reported the news Monday.

The Dallas Cowboys waived Elliott earlier this month, a move that Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said was “out of respect and appreciation for Zeke and wanting to provide him with an opportunity to pursue any potential playoff participation possible.” The Cowboys drafted Elliott in 2016 and he is the team’s

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