The Los Angeles Chargers are saying and doing all the right things off the field, but it’s the on-field performance that makes this a pretty simple prediction: The Jim Harbaugh era is over. Harbaugh’s listless, 0-3 Chargers are by far the most concerning team in football.
Justin Herbert remains the clear quarterback of the future in Los Angeles for now. The Chargers have no plans to trade their franchise signal-caller anytime soon.
McCarthy may now receive an opportunity to jump-start his career.
Was it really just a few weeks ago that people were predicting the Los Angeles Chargers would have one of the NFL’s best offenses this season? Were some really saying the Chargers had a shot at finishing first in the AFC West and would even be Super Bowl contenders?
How many of the NFL players with at least 100 receiving yards in their first-career postseason game can you name in eight minutes?
We're already through three weeks of the 2026 NFL season, meaning we have a big enough sample size to begin to panic about some underperforming teams and players around the league.
A few trades have rearranged the NFL's backup quarterback ranks, but the dust has mostly settled. From a mix of recent first-round disappointments, aging vets, and young project types, here is how the league's QB2 ranks look for the 2026 season.
The Los Angeles Chargers are 0-3 and are in the midst of a five-game losing streak dating back to Week 18 in 2025. Once again, the Chargers defense gave the team every chance to win and went toe-to-toe with Josh Allen and the Bills' juggernaut offense.
The Los Angeles Chargers may not be mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, but they are getting closer and closer to facing that fate. A far fall from what they thought could have been with the hiring of offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel.
I don’t think this is what it should look like. There’s never been any doubt about Justin Herbert’s talent, or the impressive physical traits he brings to the table.
The Los Angeles Chargers came into Buffalo looking for their first win of the season and had a real opportunity to leave with one. The defense created five turnovers and repeatedly gave the offense chances to build a lead, but those opportunities weren’t converted into enough points.
The Buffalo Bills rose as the latest to fire up the Los Angeles Chargers critics. Quarterback Justin Herbert endured a frustrating afternoon, and the Bolts dropped to 0-3 Sunday.
The Los Angeles Chargers entered Sunday with multiple starters out on both sides of the ball. Now, they have fallen to 0-3 and their season may be be over.
NFL stars can't play forever, and retirement is coming sooner than later for some of the league's top players. These 25 players could call it quits following the 2026 season.
Chargering: verb – the act of blundering when you should have things well in hand. Based on the “cursed” NFL franchise, the LA (formerly San Diego) Chargers, Chargering is when you are screwing up or underperforming at an almost comical level.
At the start of the season, many NFL insiders expected the Los Angeles Chargers to emerge as one of the primary challengers for the AFC West crown. The Chargers had been AFC playoff participants each of the past two years, and it seemed that Jim Harbaugh had a team that was capable of going much further than an early loss in the Wild Card round.
In the first two weeks of this NFL season, the Los Angeles Chargers couldn’t get a grip on the flow of things on the field during their losses to the Arizona Cardinals and Las Vegas Raiders.
Quentin Johnston, the Los Angeles Chargers' 2023 first-round selection, the last first-round pick by former General Manager Tom Telesco, is still haunting the Chargers franchise...four years later.
In some ways, the Los Angeles Chargers played better on Sunday in Week 3 when they lost to the Buffalo Bills at brand-new Highmark Stadium in Upstate New York.
The Los Angeles Chargers suffered a setback Sunday when cornerback Donte Jackson was ruled out after sustaining a concussion in the first half against the Buffalo Bills.
The team knew it had a tall task to take down a 2-0 Buffalo Bills team, but the veteran quarterback wasn’t up to the challenge.
For years, the Los Angeles Chargers have been loaded with talent and had sky-high expectations because of it. For whatever reason, they seemingly always come up short.
Smith's coverage instincts are one reason the Chargers took the former Arizona Wildcats star with pick No. 131 in the 2026 NFL Draft.
The Chargers’ offensive line has been dealt another blow. Trey Pipkins has been placed on injured reserve, per a team announcement. Pipkins is dealing with a knee injury, and today’s move ensures he will be absent for at least the next four games.
The Buffalo Bills could be missing two important receivers when they face the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday.
The Los Angeles Chargers announced they’ve ruled out G Kayode Awosika (Fibula), TE Charlie Kolar (Forearm), DB Elijah Molden (Hip), T Trey Pipkins III (Knee), WR Brenen Thompson (Quadriceps), and DL Dalvin Tomlinson (Hamstring) for Week 3. Tomlinson, 32, was selected in the second round out of Alabama by the Giants in 2017.
A Chargers side that was expected to compete for at least a playoff berth became one of the more disappointing teams of the first two weeks of the 2026 season, as they lost back-to-back games.
Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers aren't supposed to be this bad.
Now that we have two data points on every team in the NFL, we can better assess which struggling teams are in real danger and which ones will be totally fine. Let's break down some teams with concerned fan bases and rank them on the panic meter.
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