{"id":240972,"date":"2025-07-27T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/240972\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:23:10","slug":"chargers-lock-in-rashawn-slater-with-a-multi-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/240972\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers lock in Rashawn Slater with a multi-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday agreed to a multi-year contract extension with left tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chargers-chiefs-herbert-alt-91e8f37f5e805898986c0495df8bb6f0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rashawn Slater;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rashawn Slater<\/a>, keeping him as Justin Herbert&#8217;s protector.<\/p>\n<p>Slater has started all 52 games at left tackle since being chosen 13th overall in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft out of Northwestern.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he started 16 games including the postseason, as the Chargers&#8217; offense committed eight turnovers \u2014 the fewest in franchise history and tied for the second-fewest offensive turnovers in a single season in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie in 2021, Slater was a second-team All-Pro after leading a front that protected for the No. 4-ranked total offense in the NFL (390.2 yards per game) as Herbert threw for an AFC-best 32 touchdowns. Slater was also named the starting left tackle for the AFC in the Pro Bowl, becoming the first rookie tackle to do so since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday agreed to a multi-year contract extension with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1159,262,17010,6,15,1526],"class_list":{"0":"post-240972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-justin-herbert","10":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","11":"tag-multi-year-contract-extension","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft","14":"tag-rashawn-slater"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114927068999115953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240972","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=240972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}