{"id":188213,"date":"2025-09-28T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188213\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:20:07","slug":"chargers-star-tackle-joe-alt-carted-to-locker-room-with-ankle-injury-in-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188213\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers star tackle Joe Alt carted to locker room with ankle injury in Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Chargers are already without left tackle Rashawn Slater. In Week 4, the team may have sustained yet another devastating loss on the offensive line, as 2024 first-round pick Joe Alt was carted to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Alt appeared to sustain the injury during a Justin Herbert scramble. Alt was able to limp off the field on his own, but was later spotted taking a cart back to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The team quickly deemed Alt <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chargers\/status\/1972352434514403831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:questionable to return;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">questionable to return<\/a> due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Alt, 22, stabilized the team&#8217;s offensive line after he was drafted with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Alt started 16 games as a rookie, earning down-ballot Rookie of the Year votes. Alt was the only lineman to receive votes for the award.<\/p>\n<p>Alt was out to yet another excellent start to the season in 2025. Through three games, Alt ranked as the fourth-best tackle in the NFL this season, per PFF&#8217;s metrics.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Alt, and the rest of the team&#8217;s offensive line, Herbert is also out to a fantastic start in 2025. Entering Sunday, Herbert was completing 66.7% of his passes, with six touchdowns against one interception.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Chargers are already without left tackle Rashawn Slater. In Week 4, the team may have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[110086,14388,6337,349,55044,48504,99,110087],"class_list":["post-188213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-joe-alt","tag-justin-herbert","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-nfl","tag-offensive-line","tag-rashawn-slater","tag-sports","tag-the-locker-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188213","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=188213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}