The rookies were in the spotlight Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Chargers are back to Organized Team Activity (OTA) practices but with a catch, as Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh dismissed the veterans after last week’s mandatory minicamp.<\/p>\n
The Bolts will hold two more OTA practices this week before turning their attention to training camp.<\/p>\n
Here are three observations from Monday’s OTA practice:<\/p>\n
1. All eye on the youngsters<\/p>\n
The Chargers only had 24 players on the field for Monday’s practice.<\/p>\n
Some of that was due to the vets being gone, but a handful of youngsters also worked off to the side rehabbing injuries.<\/p>\n
And that meant some position groups only had a single player. DJ Uiagalelei, for example, was the lone quarterback in attendance while Marlowe Wax was the only linebacker.<\/p>\n
The offensive line group featured five players as they lined up, from left to right, with Corey Stewart, Branson Taylor, Josh Kaltenberger, Nash Jones and Tyler McLellan.<\/p>\n
There were also five defensive backs present but every other position group featured three players or fewer.<\/p>\n
Omarion Hampton and Raheim “Rocket” Sanders were the running backs as the pair traded off reps in the backfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rookies were in the spotlight Monday afternoon. The Chargers are back to Organized Team Activity (OTA) practices…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,241,2820,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6,288,2749],"class_list":{"0":"post-135334","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-chargers","10":"tag-dj-uiagalelei","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-homepage-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangeleschargers","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-omarion-hampton","20":"tag-trikweze-bridges"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135334","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=135334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}