The Chargers host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, and it remains to be determined if Herbert will play after he was banged up in the loss to Kansas City
EL SEGUNDO — Justin Herbert did the difficult thing and maybe the smart thing when he sat out of the Chargers’ practice to rest a sore left ankle and leg Wednesday, injuries suffered duringThe Chargers host to Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.
“A lot of times he goes out there and it’s good for him,” Harbaugh said of Herbert, a renowned lover of practice. “He’s one of those types of guys that football is the treatment, is the medicine. I get that. I get that. Medicine is out here on the practice field, in the weight room, in the training room. I know this, he’ll do anything and everything in his power to play on Sunday. I’ve seen it over and over. A lesser man wouldn’t do some of the things he does. He’s a beast.
By game’s end, Herbert had completed 21 of 30 passes for 213 yards and one touchdown. He extended his streak of games without an interception to 11 and his string of pass attempts without an interception to a franchise-record 335 in a row, the fifth-longest in NFL history.Herbert’s ratio of 14 touchdowns to one interception with a minimum of 300 passing attempts is tied for the highest in NFL history with Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, who had similar statistics in 2016.
Johnston hadn’t caught more than two passes in any of his previous four games, including a game in which he failed to catch any of five passes thrown his way during the Chargers’ loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Week 12. Johnston had a couple of significant drops in the game against the Ravens.
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