Los Angeles Chargers Final Week 4 Injury Report: Top stars out vs. Chiefs

Travis Wakeman

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The Los Angeles Chargers will have their first battle with the Kansas City Chiefs in the Jim Harbaugh era, but unfortunately, they will be a bit shorthanded for the contest. The team's final injury report released on Friday reveals that a few players are out and several others are listed as questionable. 

This was a big possibility coming out of the Week 3 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chargers will just have to stay above water until their bye week and perhaps for a bit after. This is how their injury report looks heading into Sunday. 

PlayerPositionInjuryGame Status
Joey BosaOLBHipOut
Junior ColsonILBHamstringOut
Rashawn SlaterOTPectoralOut
Justin HerbertQBAnkleQuestionable
Derius DavisWRHamstringQuestionable
Kristian FultonCBKneeQuestionable
Joe AltOTKneeQuestionable
Deane LeonardCBHamstringQuestionable
Ja'Sir TaylorCBFibulaQuestionable

Joey Bosa, Junior Colson and Rashawn Slater will all be out for the game. Surprisingly, Joe Alt gets a questionable tag because he is not expected to play in this game and in fact, probably had a worse chance of suiting up than Slater did. 

The focus, just like it was last week, will be on Justin Herbert's status. Like last week, Herbert probably wants to give it a go but there is more than one reason why he shouldn't. 

Without Herbert, the Chargers would turn to Taylor Heinicke, who came on in relief last week against Pittsburgh. 

Though Kristian Fulton, Ja'Sir Taylor and Deane Leonard will likely all be available for this game, the Chargers secondary is badly banged up, and the team has a rough pile of injuries for this stage in the season. 

It's the worst time for a team like the Kansas City Chiefs to be coming into SoFi Stadium. The Chargers aren't going to roll over and give this game away, but finding a win is going to be difficult with all of these key injuries. 

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Travis Wakeman

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Travis Wakeman has been covering the NFL since 2012 when he started with Bleacher Report. After reporting about the Broncos there until 2016, he joined the FanSided network as a site expert covering the San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers while simultaneously covering the Broncos at Broncos Wire when that site launched. He then took over the Broncos site at FanSided in March 2020 and covered the team there until spring of 2024. A lifelong Broncos fan and fan of the game, Travis is filled with sometimes useless NFL knowledge, but it always serves him well in any trivia contest. You can follow him on Twitter/X @traviswakeman10.