The Los Angeles Chargers continued the 2026 NFL Draft by selecting Florida offensive lineman Jake Slaughter (63rd overall). The Bolts moved down from No. 55 overall in a trade with New England, acquiring the 63rd overall choice used to select Slaughter along with a fourth-round pick (No. 63) and a sixth-round selection (No. 202). Los Angeles later traded the 86th overall pick to Cleveland for a trio of selections \u2014 a fourth-rounder (No. 105), a fifth-round choice (No. 145) and a sixth-round pick (No. 206).<\/p>\n
Slaughter capped his Florida career as one of the top interior offensive linemen in the country, finishing the 2025 season with second-team All-America accolades from The Athletic and USA Today as well as recognition as a finalist for the Rimington Trophy, which annually recognizes the top center in college football. He was the keystone on a Florida offensive line that blocked for running back Jadan Baugh to average over five yards per attempt and total 1,170 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground. Slaughter was a team captain in 2024 and earned Associated Press first-team All-America honors, while also earning a pair of AP first-team All-Southeastern Conference selections (2024-25), starting 33-of-51 career games played for the Gators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Chargers continued the 2026 NFL Draft by selecting Florida offensive lineman Jake Slaughter (63rd overall).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[122089,122236,10971,7708,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-285187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-2026-draft-editorial","9":"tag-2026-slaughter-pick63","10":"tag-articles-news-release","11":"tag-homepage-cp","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285187","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=285187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}