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Getty Images As the Chargers try to end a four-game losing streak, they’ll have one of their top pass rushers back on the field. Defensive end Melvin Ingram has been activated from injured reserve. Ingram had been placed on the short-term (for this year) IR list with a knee injury. The...

Getty Images The Jaguars placed running back Chris Thompson on the reserve/COVID-19 list Saturday. The team also already has practice squad offensive lineman KC McDermott on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Jacksonville activated running back Devine Ozigbo from injured reserve. He will take...

Getty Images Week Seven of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Eagles and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images Doctors medically cleared quarterback Tyrod Taylor to return this week. He was a full participant in practice. The Chargers, though, list him as questionable to return as Justin Herbert‘s backup. Taylor hasn’t played since the season opener. He was scheduled to start Week 2, but...

Getty Images Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo injured his hip in Week Two. The team used four kickers in his four-game absence. Lambo now is back. The Jaguars activated him from the reserve/injured-designated for return list, the team announced today. He is 3-for-3 on field goals and 6-of-7 on extra...

Getty Images Tyrod Taylor has lost his starting job with the Chargers, but he appears set to take over the backup role behind Justin Herbert. Taylor has been out of action since his lung was punctured while receiving a painkilling injection for a chest injury, but he moved up to a full...

Getty Images Through six weeks of the season, 10 teams have one win or fewer. While some of those teams are destined to win more games when they play each other (two of the one-win franchises square off tonight), multiple teams could soon be slipping out of contention, even with seven teams per...

Getty Images The Chargers are going to continue to be without running back Austin Ekeler a while longer. Ekeler went on injured reserve with a hamstring injury and hyperextended knee after the fourth game of the regular season and it sounds like he’s still in the early stages of the recovery...

Getty Images Former Raiders left tackle Mario Henderson died Wednesday, the team announced. He was 35. “The Raiders Family is heavy hearted following the passing of Mario Henderson, who was a third-round draft pick and played four seasons with the Silver and Black,” the Raiders said in a...

Getty Images The Bears signed veteran linebacker Manti Te'o to their practice squad, the team announced Tuesday. He takes the roster spot of kicker Kai Forbath, whom the Rams signed to their active roster Tuesday. Te’o has appeared in 62 games with 48 starts over seven NFL seasons. He has...

Getty Images As the Chargers emerge from their bye with a looming game against the Jaguars (a/k/a the NFL’s 2020 Slump Tonic), they could be getting back their bookend to Joey Bosa. Pass rusher Melvin Ingram has been designated for return from injured reserve. Ingram landed on IR late last...

Getty Images The NFL, as it should, likes to point out positive aspects of a season in progress, especially when it comes to the scoring of points and other things that make the game exciting. Here’s something the NFL won’t be issuing a press release about. Nearly a third of the league stinks...

San Francisco 49ers The 49ers will honor the memory of Hall of Famer Fred Dean tonight. The team announced it will wear a helmet decal with Dean’s No. 74. Dean died last week from COVID-19. He was 68. The Chargers made Dean a second-round choice in 1975, and he spent parts of seven seasons...

Getty Images The NFL made a number of changes to the schedule for Week Six and beyond as a result of rescheduling the Broncos-Patriots game for this Sunday and the Chargers were involved in many of them. Week Six was supposed to find them playing the hapless Jets, but they have a bye instead...

Getty Images Hall of Fame defensive end Fred Dean has died at the age of 68 from COVID-19, according to multiple reports. Dean spent 11 years in the NFL after being selected in the second round of the 1975 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers out of Louisiana Tech. He spent parts of seven...

Getty Images Last night’s game ended with 4:17 to play in overtime after the Chargers failed to convert a fourth and seven, following the Saints’ first-drive field goal. But should the game really have been over? After the whistle blew with Chargers receiver Mike Williams tackled short of the...

Getty Images The NFL and NFL Players Association would be wise to put all teams in a bubble now. For now, the league is discussing only the possibility of a postseason bubble. According to TheAthletic.com, the league is considering the viability of a postseason bubble, along with the...

Getty Images After the Chargers played the Buccaneers in Week Four, Bucs head coach Bruce Arians said that he told Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn that he has a “great one” in the rookie quarterback. The Saints had similar things to say about Herbert after Monday night’s game. Linebacker...

Getty Images Drew Brees has still never lost to his first NFL team. Brees and the Saints beat the Chargers 30-27 on Monday night, the fourth time in four attempts that Brees has beaten the Chargers. He previously led the Saints to wins of 37-32 in 2008, 31-24 in 2012 and 35-34 in 2016. The...

Getty Images Keenan Allen has his second touchdown of the season. The Chargers star receiver caught a 17-yard touchdown pass from Justin Herbert with 6:26 remaining in the first quarter. Michael Badgley missed the extra point attempt wide right. The Chargers have a 6-0 lead. The Chargers and...