{"id":257346,"date":"2025-10-28T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257346\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:24:09","slug":"jim-harbaugh-provides-injury-updates-on-tarheeb-still-derwin-james-omarion-hampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/257346\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Harbaugh Provides Injury Updates on Tarheeb Still, Derwin James &#038; Omarion Hampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh gave a handful of injury updates at the beginning of his Tuesday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important development is that second-year cornerback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/tarheeb-still-cam-hart-espn-ben-solak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarheeb Still<\/a> is not expected to play Sunday against the Titans. Still suffered a knee injury in Week 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tarheeb, working through something,&#8221; Harbaugh said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll be out there today practicing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s likely for this week,&#8221; Harbaugh added.<\/p>\n<p>But safety <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/derwin-james-all-pro-team-slot-cornerback\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derwin James, Jr.<\/a> (ankle) and right guard <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/mekhi-becton-depth-chart-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mekhi Becton<\/a> (knee), both of whom left Thursday&#8217;s win over the Vikings, had a more positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh said he expects both James and Becton to practice on Tuesday. Joe Alt (ankle) will also practice after leaving Thursday&#8217;s game late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh also announced that the Chargers will open the 21-day practice window for cornerback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/deane-leonard-5-things-to-know-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deane Leonard<\/a>, who has been on Injured Reserve since the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard is among the Bolts best special teams players, especially at gunner on punt coverage, and has also developed into a solid defender. He had an acrobatic interception in the Chargers Wild Card playoff game in January.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Harbaugh was asked about rookie running back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/omarion-hampton-2025-nfl-draft-stats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omarion Hampton<\/a>, who went on Injured Reserve after Week 5 with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Omarion to me looks like he&#8217;s getting better every day,&#8221; Harbaugh said. &#8220;We know he won&#8217;t be there this week though per league rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hampton is eligible to return to practice next week after his missed his fourth games while on IR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh gave a handful of injury updates at the beginning of his Tuesday press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[11978,399,11977,11979,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-257346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-cp","11":"tag-homepage-headlines","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257346","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=257346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}