{"id":77957,"date":"2025-12-02T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77957\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:49:22","slug":"chargers-qb-justin-herbert-day-to-day-after-having-hand-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77957\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers QB Justin Herbert day to day after having hand surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chargers<\/a> quarterback Justin Herbert<\/a> underwent a surgical procedure Monday to stabilize a fracture in his non-throwing hand and his status for next Monday night\u2019s game against Philadelphia will be determined later in the week, the team announced.<\/p>\n

Herbert sustained the injury in the first quarter of Sunday\u2019s victory over Las Vegas<\/a> when the back of his left hand apparently collided with the helmet of Raiders safety Jeremy Chinn. The quarterback threw a touchdown pass the play after the collision in question.<\/p>\n

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Sam Farmer breaks down what Justin Herbert\u2019s hand injury means moving forward following their win over the Raiders on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After that, he left the game briefly and had a cast applied in the locker room. He soon returned to the game and wound up leading three more touchdown drives, operating exclusively out of the shotgun formation because taking snaps under center is extremely difficult with a cast.<\/p>\n

Coach Jim Harbaugh<\/a> cited Herbert\u2019s toughness and ability to keep throwing accurate passes after the injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s almost otherworldly when it comes to that,\u201d the coach said. \u201cThere\u2019s huge respect for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chargers said Herbert\u2019s return to play is considered \u201cday to day,\u201d although the quarterback said after the game that the only way he wouldn\u2019t play is if the team doctor told him it would be \u201cvery unwise\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n

One issue that could be a concern is handing off the football, especially on runs to the right side when a quarterback typically would be using his left hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think ball security is paramount,\u201d Herbert said after the game. \u201cI think I did a good enough job of that today in the pocket. Just get involved with the running backs. So it\u2019s just stuff to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert underwent a surgical procedure Monday to stabilize a fracture in his non-throwing hand and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1535,11600,11597,217,24093,423,44789,1544,48,52,51,47,50,49,44790,44791,6442,5712,427,430,44792],"class_list":["post-77957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-chargers","tag-chiefs","tag-cowboys","tag-day","tag-dec","tag-game","tag-hand-surgery","tag-justin-herbert","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-monday-night-game","tag-open-field-tackle","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sofi-stadium","tag-team","tag-week","tag-win-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77957","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=77957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}