{"id":307097,"date":"2025-08-21T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/307097\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:26:11","slug":"will-chargers-justin-herbert-play-vs-49ers-jim-harbaugh-reveals-plans-at-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/307097\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Chargers&#8217; Justin Herbert play vs. 49ers? Jim Harbaugh reveals plans at QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Jim Harbaugh revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-chargers\/357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chargers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chargers<\/a>&#8216; plans at quarterback in the preseason finale against the 49ers this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles will be resting the starters, including Justin Herbert. Instead, Trey Lance will start and play 1-2 series. Following Lance, Taylor Heinicke will play 1-2 series. Undrafted rookie DJ Uiagalelei will then finish out the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lance and Heinicke are competing for the backup quarterback role behind Herbert. Lance has impressed more out of the two this preseason, and depending on his performance, he could solidify the spot as the No. 2 on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust trying to build on it, build on what we\u2019ve done these first three and come out with the win,\u201d Lance said.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chargers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chargerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chargers\/2025\/08\/21\/chargers-jim-harbaugh-justin-herbert-trey-lance-49ers\/85767840007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jim Harbaugh reveals Chargers&#039; plans at QB ahead of preseason finale;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jim Harbaugh reveals Chargers&#8217; plans at QB ahead of preseason finale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Jim Harbaugh revealed the Chargers&#8216; plans at quarterback in the preseason finale against the 49ers this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,7,1012,1159,1014,262,2444,2443,6,17689,1257,2720,2721],"class_list":{"0":"post-307097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jim-harbaugh","11":"tag-justin-herbert","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-losangeleschargers","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-preseason-finale","18":"tag-quarterback","19":"tag-taylor-heinicke","20":"tag-trey-lance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115069346557034816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307097","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=307097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}