4. Big fan of new additions<\/p>\n
Becton, and technically Williams, aren’t the only fresh faces who weren’t on the team in 2024.<\/p>\n
The Chargers also added tight end Tyler Conklin in free agency and then went heavy on offense in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
The Bolts drafted running back Omarion Hampton in Round 1, selected wide receiver Tre Harris in the second round and then double dipped in Round 5 with wide receiver KeAndre Lambert-Smith and tight end Oronde Gadsden.<\/p>\n
Williams, Harris, Lambert-Smith and Gadsden could all add an explosive element to the Chargers offense in 2025.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s always great to have playmakers like that, guys that are able to stretch the field,” Herbert said. “Like we talked about earlier, they picked it up really quickly. It’s always tough learning a new offense and going through that process, but those guys have picked it up.<\/p>\n
“You head out to the practice field and you understand they know what they’re doing,” Herbert continued. “Yeah, we’re going to make mistakes here or there, but they’ve done such a great job of just applying what they learned in the film room and taking it to the practice field.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, there are things we can continue to clean up through OTAs, but to have guys like that, it definitely opens up our offense,” Herbert added.<\/p>\n
Gadsden, by the way, turned plenty of heads at Wednesday’s minicamp practice as he hauled in seven total catches, including a few from Herbert.<\/p>\n
5. Moving on from Houston<\/p>\n
The last time we saw Herbert in a game, the Chargers saw their season come to a close with a road loss in Houston in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Herbert uncharacteristically threw four interceptions that day, one more than he had thrown in 18 regular-season games.<\/p>\n
Herbert, who posted a 60.3 overall PFF grade in the loss to the Texans, was asked Tuesday how he processed that playoff defeat.<\/p>\n
“Just like every other loss,” Herbert said. “You take a look on what you did wrong, what you did right and try to improve.<\/p>\n
“If I spend any more time on worrying or focusing on a loss like that, I think I’m doing a disservice on my teammates,” Herbert added. “Obviously, it didn’t go the way we wanted to, like I said at the end of the year, but you got to move on and take a look at what you did wrong, be honest with yourself, be critical, but you can’t let it take up too much of your time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. Big fan of new additions Becton, and technically Williams, aren’t the only fresh faces who weren’t on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,3460,241,7,34,38,1159,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-123268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-articles-5-takeaways","10":"tag-chargers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-homepage-headlines","14":"tag-justin-herbert","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleschargers","19":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114668812656564586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123268","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=123268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}