{"id":30743,"date":"2025-07-23T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30743\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:00:10","slug":"quentin-johnstons-2-tds-highlight-mondays-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30743\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Johnston’s 2 TDs Highlight Monday’s Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pads are on at Chargers Training Camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bolts donned the pads for the first time in camp on Tuesday as they held a 90-minute session at the University of San Diego.<\/p>\n

The Chargers will also practice at noon in San Diego on Wednesday before returning to The Bolt for Thursday’s practice.<\/p>\n

Here is the Chargers Camp Report from Tuesday’s practice:<\/p>\n

Monday marked the 12th year of Khalil Mack that he put the pads on the first time in a training camp.<\/p>\n

Mack, a future Hall of Famer with 107.5 career sacks, looked like a seasoned pro with his performance at USD.<\/p>\n

The veteran outside linebacker wrecked a drill by recording sacks on back-to-back plays on a day that mostly belonged to the Chargers defense.<\/p>\n

The Chargers began a drill where the offense had the ball on the ball at the 30-yard line and were trying to get to the end zone.<\/p>\n

Justin Herbert’s group was up first against the reserve defense but had to settle for a 33-yard field goal after the drive stalled in the red zone.<\/p>\n

Trey Lance then came out to lead his group, which is went Mack went to work.<\/p>\n

He swiped past tackle Ryan Nelson on the first play and tapped Lance for a sack and an 8-yard loss.<\/p>\n

Mack was back at it on the next play with another sack that moved the offense back six yards.<\/p>\n

“Khalil is a game wrecker,” Derwin James, Jr. said. “He can do that when he wants to. Khalil is one of those guys, when there’s a 2-minute drive going along and you need a play, he can go in and rush and get the sack and knock the ball down and get us off the field.<\/p>\n

“Having guys that like, veteran proven guys, it helps everybody on defense,” James added.<\/p>\n

James noted that he doesn’t see the 34-year-old Mack easing up anytime soon.<\/p>\n

“He’s not slowing down, he’s speeding up,” James said. “He’s getting stronger, still buying in.<\/p>\n

“He was in the building all offseason,” James added. “He really wants it, man.”<\/p>\n

That brought up a third-and-24 situation where Lance found Tre’ Harris for nine yards, but Cameron Dicker’s 53-yard field goal try was wide right.<\/p>\n

Dicker, by the way, made his three other field goals Tuesday from 33, 46 and 48 yards out.<\/p>\n

Herbert’s group then came back onto the field but rookie Trikweze Bridges ended the drive in one play with a one-handed interception in the end zone.<\/p>\n

“He had an amazing day and I told him, ‘Don’t forget this feeling. Remember how this day feels coming off the field,'” James said. “And he said, ‘It feels good.’<\/p>\n

“I just told him to stack it and never look back. He’s a young guy who is taking the coaching,” James added.<\/p>\n

Herbert and the offense stayed on the field to try again \u2014 with the offense getting down inside the 5-yard line on a pass to Brenden Rice \u2014 but Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh ended the drive there.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was a strong day for the defense as Daiyan Henley notched a tackle for loss on the first play of a 9-on-7 drill. Henley later likely would have had a sack on Herbert in a full-team drill.<\/p>\n

Troy Dye also showcased some physicality by delivering a pop to a running back in the middle of the field.<\/p>\n

“We all fed off that lick, honestly,” James said.<\/p>\n

He later added: “Troy has been flying around all camp.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pads are on at Chargers Training Camp. The Bolts donned the pads for the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[19684,19685,11978,25834,11977,11979,99],"class_list":["post-30743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2025-training-camp","tag-2025-training-camp-news","tag-app-homepage","tag-articles-camp-report","tag-homepage-cp","tag-homepage-headlines","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743","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=30743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}