The Los Angeles Chargers today signed linebacker Kana’i Mauga. In a corresponding move, the team waived linebacker Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste.<\/p>\n
Mauga appeared in 17 games over the last two seasons with the Las Vegas Raiders (2023-24). He has assisted on a pair of defensive tackles and been a presence on special teams, recording four special teams tackles. A native of Waianae, Hawaii, Mauga entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Broncos in 2022 after playing four seasons at Southern California (2018-21). With the Trojans, he started 24-of-43 games and totaled 207 tackles (106 solo), 16.5 tackles for loss, five sacks, six pass breakups, three interceptions and a pair of forced fumbles. Mauga was a third-team All-Pacific-12 selection from Pro Football Focus in 2020 and was an honorable mention as a senior for the Trojans. At Waianae High School in 2017, he was named Hawaii Defensive Player of the Year after totaling over 50 tackles and three defensive touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Chargers today signed linebacker Kana’i Mauga. In a corresponding move, the team waived linebacker Jeremiah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,7065,7064,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-48766","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-news-release","10":"tag-articles-transactions","11":"tag-chargers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-homepage-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleschargers","19":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114504853458603059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48766","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=48766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}