EL SEGUNDO — Marlowe Wax and Nikko Reed arrived at the Chargers’ training camp last month feeling confident in their abilities and in their respective chances to make the team. Or as confident as they could be after they went undrafted and, in Reed’s case, uninvited to the draft combine in Indianapolis.

Undrafted free agents tend to come and go each summer, frequently victims of numbers games and the unwritten desire of NFL general managers, coaches and coordinators to hang onto their draft picks at the expense of players who have come to training camp off the street.

Wax and Reed were longshots, in other words. That they made the Chargers’ 53-man roster earlier this week speaks to their ability to make the most of their opportunities during camp and during the four preseason games the

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