The Los Angeles Chargers offense did the best they could last season after losing both Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt for most of the year due to injury.
ESPN insider Mike Clay believes the team is expected to improve mightily on the offensive line with both of them back in the fold.
“Rashawn Slater (patellar tendon) missed every game and Joe Alt (ankle) was limited to 294 snaps in what was a lost 2025 season for perhaps the league’s best tackle duo. Both are expected to be healthy for 2026, and that is massive
news for a Chargers team that finished last in pass block win rate (53.9%) and 31st in run block win rate (68.9%) last season,” Clay wrote.
“When they were last healthy together in 2024, Slater was PFF’s second-highest graded tackle and ranked 10th among all linemen in run block win rate, and Alt (then a rookie) ranked seventh in pass block win rate and 14th in run block win rate among 80 qualified tackles.“
The Chargers’ offensive line did the best it could with what it had, but quarterback Justin Herbert was pressured out of the pocket constantly, which stunted a lot of drives for the team. Getting both Slater and Alt back into the fold will give him more time to throw in the pocket, allowing the wide receivers to break free from their matchups against opposing teams’ secondaries.
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