second time in Herbert’s career<\/a> that he’s had the play caller as the year before.<\/p>\nBut think of how good Herbert was in 2024. He threw for 3,870 yards with 23 touchdowns and just three interceptions, and that TD:INT ratio of 7.67 ranks eighth all-time among quarterbacks who threw at least 15 touchdown passes in a season.<\/p>\n
His overall Pro Football Focus grade of 91.2 was also a career best. To put that into context, quarterbacks have had a 91.0 grade or better 14 total times in the past five seasons. Herbert was one of four who did so in 2024.<\/p>\n
And he did that after essentially missing all of training camp and then playing through injuries that likely would have kept other players out for weeks.<\/p>\n
As training camp looms, here’s what Herbert said about being with Chargers Offensive Coordinator Greg Roman for Year 2.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s just continuing to improve on where we need to and taking what we did well last year and continuing to work on that,” Herbert said. “Understanding where we fell short, what we need to improve on and taking on that entire body of work from last year and just continuing to improve.<\/p>\n
“I think we’ve got a lot of great film of stuff that we’ve done \u2014 route concepts, protections \u2014 so guys are comfortable with it,” Herbert added. “It’s just continuing to get better at that and moving forward.”<\/p>\n
Herbert remains one of the league’s most skilled quarterbacks but will likely need to find playoff success in order to gain national respect.<\/p>\n
The Chargers added a plethora of playmakers around him this offseason, meaning he should have more potent options other than Ladd McConkey.<\/p>\n
Add all that up and Herbert should be primed for an elite season in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ask me, immensely. Look, Herbert is both smart and talented enough to figure out whatever offensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,12837,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-157913","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-mailbag","10":"tag-chargers","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114745258401935912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157913","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=157913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}