{"id":111679,"date":"2025-09-01T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111679\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:34:07","slug":"chargers-rb-najee-harris-cleared-for-practice-after-eye-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111679\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers RB Najee Harris cleared for practice after eye injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL SEGUNDO, Calif — Coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday that running back Najee Harris<\/a> is cleared to participate in full-contact practice, another sign that Harris could play in the Chargers’ season opener Friday against the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh was still noncommittal, however, on Harris’ status for Friday’s game: “There’s a possibility,” he said. “He’s looked really good in practice.”<\/p>\n

Harris injured his eye in a Fourth of July fireworks mishap, which landed him on the non-football Injury\/illness list ahead of training camp.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh also said that wide receiver Quentin Johnston<\/a> cleared concussion protocol. Johnston suffered a frightening concussion in the Chargers’ second preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, which left him motionless on the field for several minutes. Johnston didn’t miss much practice and appears in line to play Friday.<\/p>\n

Before Monday, Harris had worn a yellow jersey at practice, which is worn by players still working through an injury. Harris looked quick in individual drills but didn’t take any hand-offs from quarterback Justin Herbert<\/a> in the period open to the media.<\/p>\n

Running backs Hassan Haskins<\/a> and Omarion Hampton<\/a> took handoffs from Herbert while Harris worked in with quarterbacks Trey Lance<\/a> and DJ Uiagalelei<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harris has never missed a game in his NFL career. If he were to miss any time, the Chargers would likely lean heavily on Hampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif — Coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday that running back Najee Harris is cleared to participate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-111679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}