{"id":624,"date":"2025-04-26T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/624\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T03:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:47:09","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-new-chargers-dl-jamaree-caldwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/624\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Know About New Chargers DL Jamaree Caldwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chargers added to their defensive trenches with the selection of <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/round-3-nfl-draft-jamaree-caldwell-oregon-defensive-tackle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jamaree Caldwell<\/a> in the third round (No. 86 overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Get all of your Bolts draft news at the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chargers 2025 Draft Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five things to know about the Oregon defensive lineman:<\/p>\n<p>1. Disruptor for the Ducks<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell made sure to make some noise in his lone year with the Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The big defensive tackle was a key piece of the Oregon defense in 2024, starting in all 14 games for one of the top-ranked teams in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He put together a career-high 29 total tackles and added 4.5 tackles for loss, a forced fumble and three pass breakups.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell also showed some of the prowess in getting after the quarterback, finishing second among Oregon defensive linemen with 25 total pressures, according to Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n<p>His performance in his final season led him to an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention selection.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to a year in the Northwest, Caldwell spent some time along the interior with the Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>The defensive tackle was stellar for Houston across two years, playing in 20 games and amassing 8.5 sacks and 39 total tackles.<\/p>\n<p>But his best year came in 2023, when he starred and finished fifth in the Big 12 with 6.5 sacks and fourth with 0.59 sacks per game.<\/p>\n<p>He also led the Houston defense with a 76.8 overall defensive grade from Pro Football Focus that season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers added to their defensive trenches with the selection of Jamaree Caldwell in the third round (No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,37,884,7,34,38,1037,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2025-draft","9":"tag-app-homepage","10":"tag-articles-5-thing-to-know","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-homepage-headlines","14":"tag-jamaree-caldwell","15":"tag-ncaa","16":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}