{"id":125653,"date":"2025-09-01T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125653\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:46:07","slug":"najee-harris-cleared-for-contact-possibility-he-plays-vs-chiefs-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125653\/","title":{"rendered":"Najee Harris cleared for contact, &#8220;possibility&#8221; he plays vs. Chiefs on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some positive news on the injury front for Chargers running back Najee Harris. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jim Harbaugh told reporters in his Monday press conference that Harris has been cleared for contact and there\u2019s a \u201cpossibility\u201d he plays against the Chiefs on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s looked <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xUJ4FUkOE-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">really good in practice<\/a>,\u201d Harbaugh said. <\/p>\n<p>Harris, who signed a one-year deal with Los Angeles this offseason, has been sidelined by an eye injury suffered in early July. He had returned to practice, but hadn\u2019t been doing any drills with contact.<\/p>\n<p>That Harris is now cleared is a good sign for his potential availability this week.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles and Kansas City are set to issue their first injury reports of the season on Tuesday, which will give a little more clarity on Harris\u2019 status for Week 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is some positive news on the injury front for Chargers running back Najee Harris. Head coach Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-125653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}