Joe Alt<\/a><\/strong> to left tackle and putting Trey Pipkins III in at right tackle.<\/p>\nAlt, of course, was a stud left tackle at Notre Dame before the Chargers took him with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
He started at left tackle in Week 18 of the 2024 season and also took reps there this offseason and during training camp.<\/p>\n
Pipkins, meanwhile, will slide into a position he knows well.<\/p>\n
He primarily played right tackle from 2019 to 2023 before shifting to guard in 2024. But Pipkins did make two starts at right tackle in 2024 in Weeks 4 and 18 for the Bolts.<\/p>\n
Overall, Pipkins has played more than 3,000 career snaps at tackle. There’s a reason the Chargers kept him on the roster this offseason as he was projected to be the swing tackle before Slater went down.<\/p>\n
The rest of the Chargers offensive line appears set with Zion Johnson at left guard, Bradley Bozeman at center and Mekhi Becton at right guard.<\/p>\n
So, what now for the Bolts?<\/p>\n
There’s no doubt that the Chargers will miss Slater’s skill and leadership in 2025.<\/p>\n
But Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh also prides his team on being tough and adaptable.<\/p>\n
With four weeks (and a day) to go until the 2025 season opener in Brazil, Harbaugh and his staff will no doubt have the offensive line ready to go for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now the focus turns to how the Chargers will adapt without one of their top offensive linemen.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[55799,58549,49467,1582,276,11822,2961,224,5337,58154],"class_list":{"0":"post-127532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-2025-training-camp-news","10":"tag-app-homepage","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-rashawn-slater"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114989987499296854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}