Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\nDa’Shawn Hand<\/p>\n
Najee Harris<\/p>\n
Josh Harris<\/p>\n
Bobby Hart<\/p>\n
Hassan Haskins<\/p>\n
Andre James<\/p>\n
Tony Jefferson<\/p>\n
Zion Johnson<\/p>\n
Trey Lance<\/p>\n
Deane Leonard<\/p>\n
Khalil Mack<\/p>\n
Otito Ogbonnia<\/p>\n
Odafe Oweh<\/p>\n
Trevor Penning<\/p>\n
Denzel Perryman<\/p>\n
Del’Shawn Phillips<\/p>\n
Trey Pipkins III<\/p>\n
Jamaree Salyer<\/p>\n
Benjamin St-Juste<\/p>\n
Teair Tart<\/p>\n
UFA: Any player with four or more accrued seasons and an expired contract; free to negotiate and sign with any team.<\/p>\n
Restricted Free Agents (RFAs)<\/p>\n
Austin Deculus<\/p>\n
Tucker Fisk<\/p>\n
RFA: A player with three accrued seasons and an expired contract. RFAs are free to negotiate and sign with any team, but their original team can offer them one of various qualifying offers (“tenders”) that come with the right of first refusal and\/or draft-pick compensation.<\/p>\n
Exclusive Rights Free Agents (ERFA)<\/p>\n
Jaret Patterson<\/p>\n
Kimani Vidal<\/p>\n
Kendall Williamson<\/p>\n
ERFA: Any player with fewer than three accrued seasons and an expired contract. If his original team offers him a one-year contract at the league minimum (based on his credited seasons), the player cannot negotiate with other teams.<\/p>\n
While the list of players is quite extensive, the Chargers fortunately have the league’s most salary cap space available at $109,991,349 as of Jan. 14.<\/p>\n
Obviously, that surplus of available cash will decrease with the Chargers signing key players to contracts ahead of the league’s free agency period in March, but the Bolts should have plenty of money to spend on needed reinforcements, particularly at the offensive line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 14, 2026, 8:31 p.m. PT As the Los Angeles Chargers enter the 2026 offseason after their 16-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[95878,241,7,1014,262,2444,2443,6,97083,97084,95882,99157,95893,96728,97140,97085,99156,95896,95888,95895,97641,95883,95894,99158,95881],"class_list":["post-678669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-accessfree","tag-chargers","tag-football","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-nfl","tag-sstssportsnflchargers","tag-sstsnchargers","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagdashawn-hand","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagjosh-harris","tag-tagkeenan-allen","tag-taglos-angeles-chargers","tag-tagnajee-harris","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagodafe-oweh","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtwitter","tag-tagtyler-conklin","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115897970715668670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678669","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=678669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}