{"id":648162,"date":"2026-01-02T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648162\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:26:11","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-the-chargers-ahead-of-week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648162\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things To Know About the Chargers Ahead of Week 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

2. What is the Chargers record?<\/p>\n

The Chargers sit at 8-4 and remain squarely in the AFC playoff race.<\/p>\n

The Bolts, who have won four of their past five games, sit at second place in the AFC West and are one of two teams in the division with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The first-place Broncos won in overtime Sunday night to tally their ninth straight win and improve to 10-2.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs fell to the Cowboys on Thanksgiving and dropped to 6-6 on the season. The Raiders, meanwhile, are 2-10 and in the midst of another losing season.<\/p>\n

Besides staying perfect in AFC West play on Sunday, the Bolts also moved their conference record to 7-2, which is currently the best mark among all AFC teams.<\/p>\n

3. What about Justin Herbert’s hand injury?<\/p>\n

All eyes will be on Justin Herbert<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

The Chargers quarterback suffered a broken bone in his left hand on Sunday and will undergo surgery on Monday, Harbaugh announced after Sunday’s win.<\/p>\n

“He had a break in the back of the hand. He’s going to have a procedure done [Monday] on it,” Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n

Both Harbaugh and Herbert said it’s unclear of the quarterback will miss any time going forward. Herbert said both he and the Chargers medical staff are hopeful that he won’t have to miss any games.<\/p>\n

“I’m treating it as if I’m playing on Monday,” Herbert said. “I think they were very hopeful for that. I think that’s something that we’ll see [Monday] and we’ll get a feel for. I think they were very hopeful so that’s always a good thing.”<\/p>\n

Harbaugh said: “We’ll see where the week takes us.”<\/p>\n

The Chargers Head Coach later added: “He’s as tough as they come. Taped it up, glove and played a great game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. What is the Chargers record? The Chargers sit at 8-4 and remain squarely in the AFC playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,884,63112,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":["post-648162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-app-homepage","tag-articles-5-thing-to-know","tag-articles-5-things-to-know-rize-credit-union","tag-chargers","tag-football","tag-homepage-cp","tag-homepage-headlines","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648162","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=648162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}