{"id":211123,"date":"2026-03-09T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211123\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:31:10","slug":"chargers-agree-to-deal-with-former-dolphins-fullback-alec-ingold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211123\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers agree to deal with former Dolphins fullback Alec Ingold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chargers<\/a> bolstered their efforts to protect quarterback <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\/story\/2026-01-11\/justin-herbert-chargers-lose-playoffs-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Herbert<\/a> all while diversifying their offense by agreeing to a multiyear deal with veteran fullback <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/I\/IngoAl01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alec Ingold<\/a> on Sunday, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Ingold\u2019s deal with the Chargers <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2030807760682492344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reportedly is for two years and $7.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ingold will be no stranger to the Chargers\u2019 plans on offense. He played the past four seasons in Miami under coach Mike McDaniel, the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\/story\/2026-01-26\/chargers-hire-mike-mcdaniel-offensive-coordinator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chargers\u2019 new offensive coordinator<\/a>. Last year he caught eight passes for 52 yards and ran the ball twice in 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>Ingold caught 47 passes for 372 yards and rushed for 34 yards in 20 carries in four seasons with the Dolphins. He also had two rushing touchdowns and a receiving touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Before his time in Miami, Ingold played three seasons with the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes two days after the Chargers <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\/story\/2026-03-07\/chargers-sign-center-tyler-biadasz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed veteran center Tyler Biadasz<\/a> to take over for the retiring Bradley Bozeman. They agreed to terms on a one-year deal with edge rusher <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\/story\/2026-03-07\/khalil-mack-agrees-to-new-contract-with-chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khalil Mack<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With the free agency negotiation period set to begin Monday at 9 a.m. PDT, the Chargers remain in strong position to be significant players in the free-agent market. They rank among the top-five teams in salary cap space, per <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Overthecap.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers bolstered their efforts to protect quarterback Justin Herbert all while diversifying their offense by agreeing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1535,97076,6709,97074,48,52,51,47,50,49,1540,12085,97075,18035,3230,11595,278,23923,776,315,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-211123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-coach-mike-mcdaniel","10":"tag-deal","11":"tag-ingold","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-miami","19":"tag-multiple-report","20":"tag-new-offensive-coordinator","21":"tag-offense","22":"tag-plan","23":"tag-raiders","24":"tag-season","25":"tag-stranger","26":"tag-sunday","27":"tag-time","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}