{"id":309080,"date":"2025-08-22T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/309080\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:21:12","slug":"5-chargers-players-to-watch-in-preseason-finale-vs-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/309080\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Chargers Players to Watch in Preseason Finale vs. 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chargers defense will be paced by a trio of veteran safeties in 2025, a group that affects how the rest of the unit plays in front of them.<\/p>\n

But the fourth (or maybe fifth?) safety on the Chargers roster will have to contribute on special teams while staying ready to help on defense.<\/p>\n

Where does Mickens land in that group?<\/p>\n

The recent sixth-round draft pick has flashed in both practices and games, even if he needs a little fine tuning in finishing plays for takeaways.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what the Chargers do in the secondary with Tony Jefferson and Mickens when the 53-man roster deadline<\/a> arrives.<\/p>\n

With Najee Harris<\/a> still on the Non-Football Injury List, Omarion Hampton has stepped into the role of RB1 for the Chargers.<\/p>\n

Hassan Haskins then drew praise from Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh on Thursday for both his rushing ability and special teams skills.<\/p>\n

But what about the third running back on the roster?<\/p>\n

Jaret Patterson missed the past two weeks of practice while Kimani Vidal didn’t practice for the final three days of camp.<\/p>\n

That leaves Sanders and Nyheim Miller-Hines as the only healthy running backs on the roster.<\/p>\n

Simply put: if Patterson and Vidal continue to work through something physically, Sanders could find himself on the 53-man roster with an impressive showing in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers defense will be paced by a trio of veteran safeties in 2025, a group that affects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[56382,58036,37,766,241,7,34,38,1159,1014,262,51738,2444,2443,3815,6,8401,10719],"class_list":{"0":"post-309080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-2025-pre-3-editorial","9":"tag-2025-pre-3-preview-editorial","10":"tag-app-homepage","11":"tag-benjamin-st-juste","12":"tag-chargers","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-homepage-cp","15":"tag-homepage-headlines","16":"tag-justin-herbert","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","19":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-at-los-angeles-rams-2025-pre-2","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangeleschargers","22":"tag-marlowe-wax","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-trey-pipkins","25":"tag-tuli-tuipulotu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115073573512381882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309080","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=309080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}