{"id":200734,"date":"2025-10-04T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:44:07","slug":"chargers-lt-joe-alt-high-right-ankle-sprain-wont-play-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200734\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers LT Joe Alt (high right ankle sprain) won’t play Sun."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kris RhimOct 3, 2025, 05:53 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Kris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Kris covers the Los Angeles Chargers, including coach Jim Harbaugh’s franchise-altering first season (https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/41068072\/los-angeles-chargers-2024-preview-jim-harbaugh-culture). In Kris’ free time, he lives his NBA dreams at men’s leagues across Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Chargers<\/a> ruled out left tackle Joe Alt<\/a>, who has a high right ankle sprain, for Sunday’s game against the Washington Commanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

L.A. also ruled out wide receiver Derius Davis<\/a> with a knee injury. Harbaugh said that cornerback Tarheeb Still<\/a> would continue to return punts with Davis out.<\/p>\n

Alt exited the first quarter of the Chargers’ Week 4 loss to the New York Giants<\/a> on a medical cart, after Giants outside linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux<\/a> fell into Alt’s right leg during a play early in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh said he didn’t know if Alt would land on injured reserve. Alt missed all of practice and walked around the locker room with a walking boot. He said Wednesday that he was working to “get back as fast as we can.”<\/p>\n

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Harbaugh said the Chargers know who they will start at left tackle Sunday but declined to say who. “We’ll just keep that to ourselves,” he said. “We have a good plan.”<\/p>\n

Harbaugh said that right guard Mekhi Becton<\/a>, who missed last week’s game against the Giants with a concussion, is still in the NFL’s concussion protocol but that Becton has just one final step to clear to play Sunday. Becton is officially listed as questionable and was a full participant in Friday’s practice after being limited on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

Without Alt against the Giants, the Chargers’ offensive line’s play was abysmal. Quarterback Justin Herbert<\/a> was hit 13 times and sacked twice, according to TruMedia. Alt’s replacement, Austin Deculus<\/a>, struggled mightily. According to Next Gen Stats, he allowed six pressures in his 37 pass-blocking snaps, the most of any Chargers offensive lineman. The next closest were guards Zion Johnson<\/a> and Jamaree Salyer<\/a>, who allowed four each.<\/p>\n

Herbert has already been one of the NFL’s most pressured quarterbacks; opponents have hit him 47 times this season, the second most in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kris RhimOct 3, 2025, 05:53 PM ET CloseKris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Kris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-200734","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\/200734","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=200734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}