Justin Herbert dealing with a high ankle sprain
 

Could be Easton Stick time again. Chargers play the Steelers this week.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Justin Herbert said it’s “yet to be decided” whether he’ll play Sunday. He said the injury is a high right ankle sprain. Also said the pain is “not great.”<br><br>“Thankfully it’s only Friday.” <a href="https://t.co/cPfcDhl4d7">pic.twitter.com/cPfcDhl4d7</a></p>&mdash; Kris Rhim (@krisrhim1) <a href="https://twitter.com/krisrhim1/status/1837200383527055501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Well, of course he is. It's football season.

Herbert is legitimately injury prone at this point.

Rethinking that Chargers pick right now.

PIT pass rush is gonna give anyone problems, even LA's tackles.

Justin Herbert is also dealing with an acute case of loseritis.

Anybody watched much of the Chargers this year? A friend of mine mentioned he saw some and it looked like Herbert kept getting crushed and pass protection didn't look good. This dude is generally pretty smart about what he sees in NFL games so kinda hoping this is a thing for them.

i would absolutely sit him, they need him healthy against us in 9 days

Should probably sit him for both if at all. They aren't beating us either way so get healthy instead.

Tackles are phenomenal but he’ll hold onto the football

High ankle sprains don't heal in two weeks.

He’s 32-32 in his career. He’s lost 10 more games than Patrick Mahomes has in 34 fewer starts.

Gonna be an interesting battle. Alt gave Clowney his worst PFF grade of his entire career last Sunday.

Hate to say it but they’ve probably got the best bookend tackles in the business right now

And nobody ever holds him accountable for the poor decisions he makes that costs them football games.

"Overrated and Injury Prone" aren't great things to have attached to the QB you just showered millions upon and who your head coach seems to have little interest in...

Harbaugh would dump Herbert and his contract for Brock Purdy in a heartbeat. We kinda thought Herbert would be a draw for an incoming HC but I think it may have actually been an impediment for Harbaugh.

Oh I don't think it's particularly close.

Alt may make the All Pro team as a rookie. He may ALREADY be better than Slater.

Great, great player.

Still a luxury item for those guys, though.

Nosir.

They can sit him for 4-6 weeks or he can figure out how to manage the pain. And honestly, 'manage the pain' isn't gonna be a ton harder for him this week than it will in 2 weeks.

You make a good point. Harbaugh has rebuilt that team as if they don't even have a franchise QB.

Best tackles in football and still hurt after two weeks

Crazy

Reminds me of when Andrew Luck had the best OL in football. He got sacked less than 20 times in 2018 (which is insane. Burrow normally tops that by Week 4), and still came away with an injury.

No wonder he retired so soon.

Ask him if he'd rather have Herbert or the $45 million/season he's due to count against the cap over the next 5 years to spend on his defense and I don't think there's a question what the answer would be.

$218 million guaranteed. Eat it Chargers

He got hurt in camp too.

Yeah that's gonna **** with him all year now.

Chargers going to Charger.

LAC might become a real problem. In two games Dobbins has 27 carries for 265 yds (9.9yds/carry). Their top to WRs don’t have a ton of yds but they have 3 TDs between them. And their defense already has 4 sacks. In the couple highlights I watched, they are controlling the LoS on both sides of the ball, and playing smart football.

Curiously, Herbert’s weird mental letdowns are more noticeable now that the rest of the team is playing better football. Maybe that’s just me. But it makes me realize just how much his first two HCs ****ed him up. And how Harbaugh is going to un**** him in one season.

But Justin’s not even healthy, and the Chargers are just dominating in their first two games.


Chargers may not Charger this season.

Is zit bad luck, or is zit a pattern at this point?

How many of these QB deals work out?

I think you have to say Allen's deal. Mahomes. Probably Hurts because it's not that bad a contract so they're okay even if he may be a little bit below where he looked to be a few years back.

I guess Jackson's deal is okay? That $52 million base salary in 2026 is gonna sting but it's not that crazy anymore and it's relatively short term.

Still time for Burrow's deal to work out - one ring makes it all worthw......HAAAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHA!

Sorry, couldn't get through that one with a straight face. Moving on...

Love's will probably go pretty well. Goff's seems reasonable and he's likely to be pretty steady and consistent. I think Mayfield's deal is gonna look like a steal.

Man - it must really suck not having Patrick Mahomes.

Damn. Isn't he dealing with plantar fascitis as well?

His style of play it won't really hamper him much with a good tape job.

Pain is very manageable.

Only real concern is contact to that area during a tackle or just getting rolled up on.

Hurtbert.

Justin and Joe are brokedick brothers from another mother

I heard he also has nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, and diarrhea.

Patrick Mahomes is tougher than Justin Herbert imo.

If he has a HAS AND plantar fasciitis, they better sit him down 2-3 weeks, maybe 4.

But they wont.

Guy’s averaging 23 attempts per game. This mf can’t tape that bitch up and run it against a conference and division rival, both of whom are likely to make the playoffs?

Our QB won a Super Bowl on a high ankle sprain.

if it wasn't the playoffs they probably would have sat Mahomes a couple of weeks

Hush.

Justin Herbert is a big fat pussy and I won’t hear anything to the contrary.

They played the Fade, and the Panthers….

Interesting way to call it bruised labia

Regular season is just part of a 20 game pre-season for the Playoffs. Mahomes would have rested if his ankle problem was in the regular season instead of Playoffs.

Even more importantly, remember who the Chargers play next week. They don't want to lose the Steelers game but there's zero doubt Harbaugh is going to throw everything they have at Chiefs/Chargers.

They've played the worst team in the league and the Raiders, not much to go off of. Their schedule is fairly easy so maybe they can be a wild card, but I can't see more than that.

Again we will find out a usurper to the throne can't hack it when faced with something tiny like a sprain.

They are also idiots if they don't rest him for KC.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There’s optimism that <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chargers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chargers</a> QB Justin Herbert starts Sunday at Pittsburgh despite a high-ankle sprain suffered last week, per me, <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MikeGarafolo</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomPelissero</a>.<br><br>Herbert is listed as questionable and will test the ankle before the game. But the hope is he goes. <a href="https://t.co/EOjXMA7I8E">pic.twitter.com/EOjXMA7I8E</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1837548238380970165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

They’ll play him. He’ll get pummeled & end up on IR. Dolts end up picking in top 3 next draft. That’s one way to do it. :D

This season has torn Achilles written all over it

I get it, that’s why I said, “might.” They haven’t played anybody, and this weekend they’re still not playing anybody. But they play us in a couple weeks and then we’ll see how much they un****ed themselves I guess.


And I doubt they’re going to get far in the playoffs, if they even make it that far, throwing just 15 times a game.

Just saying they don’t look like a band of monkeys trying to **** a football, the way they did the last few seasons.

And it occurred to me that one way to avoid getting stymied by the 2-high shell is just have a massive OL and a couple good RBs, and just run it 30+ times. At 10 yds a clip no less.


I mean, just how many really good run defenses are there in the league right now anyway? Not very many imo.

Tj Watt is gonna wrap up the division for us in week 3.

must see TV!!! :LOL:

The matchup between TJ and Joe Alt will be the one to watch, obviously. Rookie RT Joe Alt (6'8" 322-lbs.) through his first 126 snaps, has committed zero penalties, allowed only a single sack on 54 passing plays, and surrendered just two pressures. So we know he basically stoned Maxx Crosby.

While yeah, protecting your multi million dollar quarterback is essential. But they could have had Nabers.

So.. just as I thought might happen, (and I almost never wish injuries on people).. Steelers re-aggravated the injury and he had to leave the game. Haven't seen it yet, but this is why it didn't make sense to play him today.

He is looking even more iffy for next weekend.

San Diego or LA, Chargers gonna charger. They are wasting him. While as a Chiefs fan I applaud that, I hate to see a player continually have their career put at stake because of a clueless franchise.

If either Slater or Alt can't go next weekend I'd bet they sit him.

i watched most of their game today and he was getting absolutely destroyed every time i looked over at that one lmao

Lost Bosa, Slater, and Alt today too.

Their previous coach in a lot of ways ruined his career.

The pimpled one is 32–33 as a starter in his career.

Holy shit.. that is nuts.

Slide Chris Jones on out to the edge on passing downs early and often!

we're gonna wrap up the afc west in week 4 LMAO

We have injuries of our own. Just play our games each week.