Chargers Offensive Coordinator Mike McDaniel<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn recent years, Herbert was a workhorse in the offseason, taking nearly every practice rep as he tried to perfect each throw and play.<\/p>\n
But McDaniel helped implement a new, two-pronged strategy in recent months. The first focus placed an emphasis on Herbert’s footwork in the shotgun for quicker throws.<\/p>\n
Herbert is now aligned with his left foot forward in the stance, which means he can now catch the snap and fire away.<\/p>\n
“You want to get the ball in a position where the receivers can run with it,” Herbert said. “Getting the ball out earlier and in timing and rhythm allows them to do that.”<\/p>\n
McDaniel added: “Ultimately trying to take advantage of the space that defenses gives.”<\/p>\n
As a result of the enhanced footwork focus, Herbert took about one day off a week from throwing during the offseason program. The quarterback did not throw in practices on those days, meaning he should be feeling fresher heading into camp.<\/p>\n
We’ll see if the Bolts limit Herbert at all in camp, but Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh said last month that the recent approach was a “ramp up” to what lies ahead.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a plan, nice progression to where he’s ramping up to training camp and the first game of the season and the entire season,” Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n
Behind Herbert, Lance and Uiagalelei could potentially battle for the backup spot, a job Lance had a firm grasp on last season.<\/p>\n
And while Lance was solid this spring, Uiagalelei looked particularly sharp in spring practices with an increased workload.<\/p>\n
Perhaps Uiagalelei challenges Lance for the backup job in camp and the preseason. If not, that only means a deeper and more talented quarterback room for the Bolts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Camp Outlook The Chargers quarterback room remains unchanged from a year ago when Justin Herbert, Trey Lance and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[98782,37,241,2820,7,34,38,1159,1014,262,2444,2443,6,2721],"class_list":["post-939308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-2026-offseason-editorial","tag-app-homepage","tag-chargers","tag-dj-uiagalelei","tag-football","tag-homepage-cp","tag-homepage-headlines","tag-justin-herbert","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-nfl","tag-trey-lance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116880051030899965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939308","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=939308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}