When your franchise quarterback takes 121 pressures in 11 games (more than any other player in the league), something’s got to give. For Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers, the answer to this problem might have been standing right in front of him. Jamaree Salyer, the 4th-year guard, will have Herbert’s vote of confidence if head coach Jim Harbaugh decides to give him a start.

“If he’s out there, we feel comfortable with him,” Herbert said when asked about the 25-year-old potentially starting for their Week 13 matchup against the Las Vegas Raiders . And in a season where comfort’s been rarer than a clean pocket, that endorsement matters.

Salyer has already lived through the nightmare the Chargers’ O-line is facing this year. Back in 2022, when Rashawn Slater

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