{"id":266341,"date":"2026-10-07T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/chargers-facing-dire-injury-situation-in-week-5-game-vs-broncos\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T23:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:22:32","slug":"chargers-facing-dire-injury-situation-in-week-5-game-vs-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/chargers-facing-dire-injury-situation-in-week-5-game-vs-broncos\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers facing dire injury situation in Week 5 game vs. Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/los_angeles_chargers\/45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> season is in danger of completely slipping away from them. Not only are they taking an 0-4 record into Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/denver_broncos\/35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Broncos<\/a>, but they are facing the reality of having a severely injury-depleted lineup when they take the field.<\/p>\n<p>It could also be really bad news for quarterback Justin Herbert as he attempts to shake off a terrible individual start to the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Chargers facing dire injury situation for game vs. Broncos<\/h2>\n<p>Among the injured players for the Chargers are both starting tackles, Joe Alt and Rashawn Slater as well as wide receiver Ladd McConkey.<\/p>\n<p>Alt and Slater are both expected to miss the game, while McConkey did not practice on Wednesday due to what the team is calling a foot injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/chargers_facing_dire_injury_situation_in_week_5_game_vs_broncos\/s1_13132_44400995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Chargers season is in danger of completely slipping away from them. Not only are they taking an 0-4 record into Sunday&#8217;s game against the Denver Broncos, but they are facing the reality of having a severely injury-depleted lineup when they take the field. It could also be really bad news for quarterback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}