{"id":165059,"date":"2025-06-28T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165059\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:06:17","slug":"why-the-chargers-are-wearing-special-jersey-patches-under-jim-harbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165059\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Chargers are Wearing Special Jersey Patches Under Jim Harbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve seen highlights or photos from recent Chargers offseason practices, perhaps you’ve noticed something new.<\/p>\n

Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh<\/a> recently implemented special patches for players to wear on their practice jerseys to signify personal or team accomplishments.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh on Tuesday explained why he wanted to add the extra touch to the practice jerseys.<\/p>\n

“Like a resum\u00e9. Kind of reminds me how a [military] general has different patches,” Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n

“Some day they’ll be able to put that jersey up in a frame, put it on a wall, say something really good about themselves, it will be what they accomplished as a pro football player. I like that,” Harbaugh later added.<\/p>\n

There are multiple categories that a player can get a patch for, including being a captain, making the playoffs with the Chargers or earning All-Pro honors<\/a>. Each patch is represented with a logo of a certain category plus the appropriate number of Bolts they have earned.<\/p>\n

Derwin James, Jr., for example, has a patch with three Bolts for the three playoff appearances he’s made with the Chargers.<\/p>\n

James also has a ‘C’ patch with four Bolts as a four-time captain, plus an All-Pro patch with four Bolts and a patch two Bolts since he’s twice been a Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year nominee.<\/p>\n

“I love it. I love everything about it,” James said. “At the end of the day, this is a professional league, but when you can keep us connected and get a little bragging rights in the locker room, it’s good.<\/p>\n

“Guys want to compete for their jersey to look like that, too. It’s a lot of fun,” James added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’ve seen highlights or photos from recent Chargers offseason practices, perhaps you’ve noticed something new. Chargers Head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,241,7,34,38,1012,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-165059","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-football","11":"tag-homepage-cp","12":"tag-homepage-headlines","13":"tag-jim-harbaugh","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\/114760672128898679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165059","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=165059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}