Chargers guard Forrest Lamp suffered a torn ACL in his right knee during practice on Wednesday, per a team announcement. The rookie second-round pick will miss the season as a result. Adam Schefter of ESPN first reported the news (Twitter link).
With Lamp and rookie wide receiver Mike Williams dealing with significant injuries, the Chargers are in real danger of not having either of their top two picks this season. Williams, the Chargers’ first-rounder, is dealing with a back problem that head coach Anthony Lynn recently admitted could keep him out for the year. Lamp’s issue will take the 38th overall selection out of play for 2017. It also continues a string of horrible injury-related luck for the Chargers, who placed a whopping 27 players on IR during a five-win 2016 campaign.
Lamp, formerly with Western Kentucky, looked like a potential first-rounder leading up to the draft. After landing with the Chargers early in Round 2, he seemed poised to serve as an immediate starter at right guard on a line that Football Outsiders ranked among the NFL’s worst last season. Los Angeles does have several interior O-line options on hand even without Lamp, as Roster Resource shows, though losing the rookie still counts as a notable setback.
jaw dropping and speechless about how this organization just keeps on having these injuries that keep mounting each and every year
Geez, what kind of drills do the Chargers have these kids go through??
It’s bad juju!!
Curse of Spanos. Poor kids.
Anthony Lynn was a coach with the Bills last year, and their first rounder (Shaq Lawson) and second rounder (Reggie Ragland) both missed significant time, including Ragland the entire year with a knee. Same luck, different team for him.
Don’t Run Forrest !!!
Do these guys that write this stuff actually follow the teams they write about? Slauson has been at guard all off season with Teurk,Pulley and Feeney working at center. My guess is that either Wiggins or Feeney takes Lamps place with the starting group.
I mean, Connor writes here at PFR and over at MLBTR too. That’s 62 teams that he has to cover right there, so you can’t blame him for not knowing the ins and outs of every single one of them. His job isn’t to be an expert; besides, the posts here always link to other articles that provide additional info.
Yes you can blame him. They are suppose to have their facts straight. Fake news is a no no.
Thanks for the defense, Michael, but the criticism from nutznboltz is definitely valid. I should’ve been aware of Slauson’s position switch.
Good on you for admitting you were wrong. I respect that.
No problem. Thank you for pointing it out.
So, you are ok with writers not reporting accurate info?