EL SEGUNDO, Calif — Tests confirmed a right ankle sprain for Los Angeles Chargers left tackle Joe Alt, who is \u201cdoubtful\u201d in Sunday\u2019s game against the Washington Commanders, coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Harbaugh said he didn\u2019t know if Alt would land on injured reserve.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to speculate on the degree, but likely not to play this week, and we\u2019ll take it day by day,\u201d Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n
Alt exited the first quarter of the Chargers\u2019 Week 4 loss to the New York Giants on a medical cart, after Giants outside linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux fell into Alt\u2019s right leg during a play early in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Without Alt, the Chargers\u2019 offensive line\u2019s play was putrid. Quarterback Justin Herbert was hit 13 times and sacked twice, according to TruMedia. Alt\u2019s replacement, Austin Deculus, struggled mightily. According to Next Gen Stats, he allowed six pressures in his 37 pass-blocking snaps, the most of any Chargers offensive lineman. The next closest were guards Zion Johnson and Jamaree Salyer, who allowed four each.<\/p>\n
The Chargers already went into Sunday\u2019s game against the Giants missing two projected starters on the offensive line. L.A. lost Pro Bowl left tackle Rashawn Slater for the season in training camp after he ruptured his patellar tendon. When Slater went down, the Chargers moved Alt from right to left tackle and put backup Trey Pipkins at right tackle. Guard Mekhi Becton also missed Sunday\u2019s game with a concussion.<\/p>\n
Herbert has already been one of the NFL\u2019s most pressured quarterbacks, opponents have hit him 47 times this season, the second most in the NFL. Now, the Chargers could go into Sunday\u2019s game against the Commanders with three backup offensive linemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif — Tests confirmed a right ankle sprain for Los Angeles Chargers left tackle Joe Alt,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,92401,92400,514,82],"class_list":["post-183317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-joe-alt-sports-football-player-player-statscom-1321282","tag-los-angeles-chargers-sports-football-team-team-statscom-357","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}