Rashawn Slater<\/a> on Injured Reserve.<\/p>\n“There’s a lot of mental part to it, I think that’s where it starts,” Alt said about switching to left tackle. “Really tapping into your previous reps at the position and knowing that\u2026 It boils down to reps and mentally trusting you can do it and you’ve been there before.”<\/p>\n
Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh added: “I thought he did a heck of a job moving over to left tackle and played like Joe Alt.”<\/p>\n
His total numbers on the year rank among the league’s best.<\/p>\n
Alt has allowed just four total pressures and no sacks in 169 pass blocking snaps, as his 98.8 pass blocking efficiency ranks third among all tackles with at least 150 pass blocking reps.<\/p>\n
He, and the Chargers offense, will be tested big time against a familiar foe he faced in 2024.<\/p>\n
The Texans defense heads into SoFi Stadium with one of the best edge rusher tandems in the league with Will Anderson, Jr., and Danielle Hunter.<\/p>\n
Anderson is tied for the NFL lead with 7.5 sacks, while Hunter has tallied 4.0.<\/p>\n
“It starts with their edges. They got a great edge group,” Alt said this week about the Texans. “Their whole front loves rushing the passer, and that’s where it starts. You got to protect the quarterback.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OT Joe Alt The Chargers star tackle didn’t skip a beat in his return to play. After missing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1048052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[135393,37,241,7,34,38,135392,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":["post-1048051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-2026-reg-9-editorial","tag-app-homepage","tag-chargers","tag-football","tag-homepage-cp","tag-homepage-headlines","tag-houston-texans-at-los-angeles-chargers-2026-reg-9","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117573778334683020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}