{"id":667415,"date":"2026-01-11T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/667415\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:15:12","slug":"injury-will-keep-los-angeles-chargers-receiver-out-of-nfl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/667415\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury will keep Los Angeles Chargers receiver out of NFL playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RFFFHNIJNZEY7IPHTXDC2SWUZU\">Rookie<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/KeAndre%20Lambert-Smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/KeAndre%20Lambert-Smith\/\"> KeAndre Lambert-Smith<\/a> will miss the NFL playoffs after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/activate-tucker-fisk-elevate-dalevon-campbell-isas-waxter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/activate-tucker-fisk-elevate-dalevon-campbell-isas-waxter\">Los Angeles Chargers placed<\/a> the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\">Auburn<\/a> wide receiver on injured reserve on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"M4DAETM3PNCUDPO6UGKMWMPLIM\">The Chargers play the New England Patriots at 7 p.m. CST Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in a Wild-Card Weekend game in the NFL playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DSD2RIDE6VAZDAHWSPRU5HISFU\">Lambert-Smith sustained a hamstring injury in the Chargers\u2019 19-3 loss to the Denver Broncos in the regular-season finale on Sunday. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/team\/injury-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/team\/injury-report\/\">did not practice <\/a>this week before Los Angeles ended his season with the injured-reserve designation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O6Y5SLC7J5DC5AUNCGJ7H7UQOU\">FOR MORE OF AL.COM\u2019S COVERAGE OF THE NFL, GO TO OUR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/nfl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UJEKP5B3UBDMLDYTSRUCCWX6FQ\">A fifth-round draft pick on April 26, Lambert-Smith played in 10 games with two starts in the 2025 regular season. He had five receptions for 51 yards and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/12\/former-auburn-receiver-scores-his-first-nfl-touchdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/12\/former-auburn-receiver-scores-his-first-nfl-touchdown.html\">one touchdown<\/a> and returned 18 kickoffs for a 23.2-yard average while on the field for 123 offensive snaps and 53 special-teams plays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"62UY7UH4HZH6JLF2XWANGMV4ZY\">Lambert-Smith had 50 receptions for 981 yards and eight touchdowns in 2024, his only season at Auburn. The wide receiver transferred to the Tigers after four seasons at Penn State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie KeAndre Lambert-Smith will miss the NFL playoffs after the Los Angeles Chargers placed the former Auburn wide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[97041,241,7,1014,262,2444,2443,6,31185],"class_list":{"0":"post-667415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-_ar36760","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangeleschargers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nflraw25"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115873587686088036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667415","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=667415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}