{"id":84057,"date":"2025-08-15T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84057\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:04:07","slug":"justin-herbert-says-he-requested-to-play-in-the-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84057\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Herbert says he requested to play in the preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Herbert has never played in the preseason. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/justin-herbert-set-to-play-in-a-preseason-game-for-the-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He will play in this preseason<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers quarterback asked coach Jim Harbaugh to suit up and get some snaps, something he has never done in his career. Herbert will start and play a few plays against the Rams on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was actually me going to him and saying, \u2018Hey, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/justin-herbert-preseason-rams-jim-harbaugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">would it be OK<\/a> if I went in and played?\u2019\u201d Herbert said, via Eric Smith of the team website. \u201cBecause I think in years past, the plan was to rest. But I wanted to go out there and feel the pass rush because in practice, as a quarterback, you don\u2019t always get the true feeling of the pass rush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I thought it\u2019d be helpful to go out there. He was understanding and he worked together talking through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herbert originally was scheduled to play last weekend\u2019s preseason opener against the Saints. Rashawn Slater\u2019s season-ending knee injury forced a shuffling of the offensive line and prompted the Chargers to sit Herbert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to adjust and worked toward this being the week to play,\u201d Herbert said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers made Herbert a 2020 first-round selection, but the NFL didn\u2019t have a preseason that year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He didn\u2019t dress for any exhibition games from 2021-23 and was dealing with a plantar fascia injury in his right foot last year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, he\u2019s healthy and willing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just thought it was something that can help,\u201d Herbert said. \u201cI just thought this was something that could be good for me and good for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Backup quarterbacks Taylor Heinicke and Trey Lance also will play Saturday, Harbaugh said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Herbert has never played in the preseason. He will play in this preseason. The Chargers quarterback asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-84057","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\/84057","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=84057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}