4. A possible trade back?<\/p>\n
The Chargers took their first-round pick down to the wire, submitting it with just seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n
Hortiz said he was busy working the phones but ultimately felt like sticking and picking with Hampton was the best call.<\/p>\n
“As you take every player, you have to listen to offers. And we had a lot of calls coming in, we did,” Hortiz said. “Multiple teams called us and we were talking through things. In the end, he was the guy we were taking.”<\/p>\n
“Discussions were had. We listened, entertained some ideas, we talked about it and had discussions with teams but in the end, you either make a trade or make the pick. And we made the pick,” Hortiz added.<\/p>\n
Hortiz declined to get into specifics as to which teams he was on the horn with.<\/p>\n
“I’m not going to talk about the teams specifically. But we had a number of calls from a number of teams,” Hortiz said,<\/p>\n
The Chargers GM was also asked about whether or not the Bolts looked to trade up in Round 1.<\/p>\n
“Every draft you consider options both ways,” Hortiz said before adding that the Bolts didn’t feel the value was worth it.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t willing to shoot for the moon and make a massive jump up,” Hortiz added. “We knew there were some good players we really valued that had a chance to be there. Omarion got to us.”<\/p>\n
5. Peeking ahead to Day 2<\/p>\n
The Chargers enter Day 2 with a pair of picks at their disposal.<\/p>\n
The Bolts hold the No. 55 overall pick in the second round and No. 86 in Round 3.<\/p>\n
And while many draft experts said the 2025 NFL Draft lacked high-end talent at the top of Round 1, that same group said that Day 2 is filled with plenty of talent, depth and experience.<\/p>\n
Hortiz on Thursday night agreed with that notion.<\/p>\n
“You put together your list for the first round and there’s a number of guys still on that list for us,” Hortiz said. “That’s the type of draft it is. It’s a deep draft that runs deep. It’s going to carry through into the second and third round in terms of talent.”<\/p>\n
“It’s populated by players who stayed and extra year and developed and got better. I think the league is going to benefit from it. You’re going to see a lot of good players taken [Friday],” Hortiz added.<\/p>\n
Looking to Day 3, the Chargers have a whopping seven picks, including four selections in Round 6 alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. A possible trade back? The Chargers took their first-round pick down to the wire, submitting it with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[39,37,3460,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-2025-draft","9":"tag-app-homepage","10":"tag-articles-5-takeaways","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\/114412447693413027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","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=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}