The Chargers were not willing to wait until the start of free agency to fill one of the team’s biggest holes on the roster.
Early Friday morning, NFL insider Ian Rapoport broke the news of the Bolts signing former Washington and Dallas center Tyler Biadasz to a three-year, $30 million deal. Biadasz was in Los Angeles on Thursday for a visit with the team and it looks as if things went so well the Chargers reused to wait much longer before putting pen to paper.
Biadasz is a former fourth-round pick of the Cowboys from the 2020 draft out of Wisconsin. He was a Rimington Award winner as the nation’s best center following his senior season and has a Pro Bowl nod to his name from the 2022 campaign. Biadasz posted a career-high 70.7 overall season grade from Pro Football Focus from the 2025 season, including a 71.2 run block grade that was also the highest single-season mark of his career.
This move obviously takes the Chargers out of the Tyler Linderbaum sweepstakes, along with the shot at adding Connor McGovern’s services, the latter of which was reported to have quite the market this free offseason. It’s never been Joe Hortiz’s strategy to spend a lot of cash on massive signings, so that likely was the deciding factor in them pivoting to a more cost-effective option.
