{"id":151829,"date":"2025-08-17T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151829\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:43:10","slug":"chargers-wr-quentin-johnston-carted-off-after-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151829\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers WR Quentin Johnston carted off after big hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755391389_464_rhim_kris.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Kris RhimAug 16, 2025, 07:45 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Kris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Kris covers the Los Angeles Chargers, including coach Jim Harbaugh&#8217;s franchise-altering first season (https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/41068072\/los-angeles-chargers-2024-preview-jim-harbaugh-culture). In Kris&#8217; free time, he lives his NBA dreams at men&#8217;s leagues across Los Angeles.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"84caf62b-c753-71ea-a787-44fd224a4294\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/los-angeles-chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"84bbb266-ee47-3828-9628-a26e48c152c8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4429025\/quentin-johnston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Johnston<\/a> exited the opening series of Saturday&#8217;s preseason game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2e1473b2-e269-fd7a-1137-c1edacb85986\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lar\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> on a medical cart after a hit that left him motionless on the field for several minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Rams safety <a data-player-guid=\"a404201e-c3b5-b4b2-0e0a-c4ba8a92c04a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361651\/tanner-ingle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Ingle<\/a> hit Johnston while he was trying to secure a pass from quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"ec880cbc-1490-cdae-548f-f844104974ae\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4038941\/justin-herbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Herbert<\/a>, and Johnston&#8217;s head turned in the opposite direction. It was tense at SoFi Stadium as Johnston was motionless on the ground for several minutes as trainers prepared a stretcher for him. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh and wide receivers coach Sanjay Lal also checked on Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston eventually sat up, but was frustrated, slamming his gloves on the ground before exiting on the cart.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Quentin Johnston, the Chargers&#8217; former first-round pick and top deep-ball threat, was carted off during the opening series of Saturday&#8217;s preseason game.\u00a0AP Photo\/Mark J. Terrill<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh played all of his starters for this preseason game except for safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3691739\/derwin-james-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derwin James<\/a> and outside linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"ff7e62d0-e888-72c8-ffe6-2d189c5ecdd2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/16710\/khalil-mack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khalil Mack<\/a>. Johnston is expected to be the Chargers&#8217; main deep-ball threat this season; losing him for any significant time could elevate rookies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4686612\/tre-harris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre Harris<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"8230726d-0f30-3675-8476-3d42096d9d43\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4430870\/keandre-lambert-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KeAndre Lambert-Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert-Smith also briefly exited Saturday&#8217;s game with an injury &#8212; going to the locker room with trainers &#8212; but returned in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston, the Chargers&#8217; first-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft, finished with 55 catches, 711 yards and a team-leading eight receiving touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kris RhimAug 16, 2025, 07:45 PM ET Close Kris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-151829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115041337948547644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151829","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=151829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}