The Los Angeles Chargers today agreed to terms with tight end Charlie Kolar on a multi-year contract.<\/p>\n
One of the NFL’s premier blocking tight ends, Kolar (pronounced KOH-ler) comes to the City of Angels after spending the last four seasons with Baltimore, originally entering the professional ranks as a fourth-round selection (128th overall) by the Ravens in the 2022 NFL Draft. He helped pave the way for running back Derrick Henry to post a pair of 1,500-yard rushing seasons and total 3,516 rushing yards and 32 touchdowns over the last two years. Kolar also contributed on a unit that helped quarterback Lamar Jackson earn back-to-back first-team All-Pro honors from The Associated Press (2023-24), accounting for 74 touchdowns (65 passing, nine rushing). Over his four-year career, Kolar has appeared in 51 games and made 13 starts, totaling 31 receptions for 413 yards (13.3 avg.) and four touchdowns (including postseason).<\/p>\n
Kolar appeared in 49 career games over four seasons at Iowa State University (2018-21) after redshirting in 2017. He was recognized as the winner of the William V. Campbell Trophy as a senior, also known as the ‘Academic Heisman,’ setting career highs with 62 receptions and 756 receiving yards, while adding six touchdown grabs. Kolar was a three-time first-team All-Big 12 recipient (2019-21) from the conference’s coaches and a two-time Associated Press third-team All-American (2019-20). He finished his Cyclones career with 168 receptions for 2,181 yards (13.0 avg.) and 23 touchdowns \u2014 the second-most receiving scores by a tight end in the country over his four seasons in Ames, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Chargers today agreed to terms with tight end Charlie Kolar on a multi-year contract. One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[111620,98782,37,7065,7064,241,4699,116750,7,112817,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-856522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-2026-free-agency-editorial","9":"tag-2026-offseason-editorial","10":"tag-app-homepage","11":"tag-articles-news-release","12":"tag-articles-transactions","13":"tag-chargers","14":"tag-charlie-kolar","15":"tag-charlie-kolar-fa-2026","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-free-agency-editorial-splitero","18":"tag-homepage-cp","19":"tag-homepage-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-losangeleschargers","24":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116356576521482349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856522","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=856522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}