Chargers Boldly Predicted To 'blow Their Free Agency Budget' On One Player

The Los Angeles Chargers request to return immoderate large swings this offseason. 

That starts correct now arsenic Jim Harbaugh and Co. search for Justin Herbert’s caller violative coordinator. 

But it besides stretches acold into nan offseason, wherever they will apt effort to return astatine slightest 1 large plaything connected nan violative line. Last year’s large swing, Mekhi Becton, fell wholly flat, to nan constituent Becton looks for illustration an evident trim candidate.

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ESPN’s Aaron Schatz precocious predicted a awesome statement nan Chargers mightiness look to dole retired successful free agency: 

“The Chargers will rustle their free agency fund connected Steelers defender Isaac Seumalo. Despite turning 33 adjacent season, he is still playing astatine a precocious level. Seumalo classed 2nd among each guards pinch a 96.9% walk artifact triumph complaint this season.”

Seumalo is so getting up location successful age, but it would beryllium beautiful difficult to reason against nan Chargers going and getting nan 12th-overall graded guard astatine Pro Football Focus retired of 81 graded. 

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Last offseason, we wrote that Becton was a awesome gamble. The Chargers hinted arsenic overmuch erstwhile they built an retired into his statement that fto them flight nan two-year woody this offseason. He had a awesome wounded history and only 1 value twelvemonth aft switching to defender successful Philadelphia, aft all. 

Seumalo has been much of a proven commodity complete nan people of his career.  He hasn’t had cleanable attendance by immoderate means, but he’s been dependable successful locations for illustration Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. 

Ideally, spending immoderate of that much than $100 cardinal successful headdress abstraction connected a Seumalo-type subordinate and pairing him pinch a high-value draught prime aimed astatine fixing different spot connected nan interior violative statement would beryllium a smart move. 

Seumalo, a precocious draught prime and a returning Zion Johnson connected a caller woody would beryllium a beautiful coagulated measurement to reside nan violative statement successful beforehand of Herbert, giving nan interior a respectable outlook to spell on pinch nan elite tackle tandem of Joe Alt and Rashawn Slater. 

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