Being inactive is no easy task. Greg Roman, the Chargers\u2019 offensive coordinator, said he\u2019s seen his players \u201cflatline\u201d mentally when they know they\u2019re not suiting up.<\/p>\n
Rookie tight end Oronde Gadsden II, however, is not one of those guys. Roman recognized that when Gadsden did not play the first two weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you get a young guy that\u2019s sitting there, champing at the bit, waiting for his time \u2014 that\u2019s kind of what I saw the last three weeks from him,\u201d Roman said of Gadsden, who had five catches for 46 yards in his debut last week against the Broncos. \u201cHe\u2019ll be ready when his time comes, because he\u2019s one of those guys. You can tell he wants the action.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only other fifth-round draft pick tight end with five catches in his NFL debut? George Kittle.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy golly gosh,\u201d coach Jim Harbaugh blurted out when talking about Gadsden\u2019s multiple contested catches.<\/p>\n
Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert echoed Harbaugh\u2019s sentiments. He said Gadsden has picked up the playbook quickly, cementing himself as a player the star quarterback can trust through three games.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting targeted by a quarterback of that caliber \u2014 a quarterback that\u2019s all about trust and wants to throw to guys that he trusts \u2014 it feels great,\u201d Gadsden said, who will see increased reps with Will Dissly (knee) out for Sunday\u2019s game against the Giants.<\/p>\n
Harbaugh said that he could see the type of player Gadsden was by the look in his eyes when he was told he\u2019d play in Week 3 \u2014 a hint at what could come next.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had a feeling,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen this movie a few times \u2014 there\u2019s more good to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Being inactive is no easy task. Greg Roman, the Chargers\u2019 offensive coordinator, said he\u2019s seen his players \u201cflatline\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":262066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[137065,529,121312,1582,276,83569,7151,103147,1910,22967,268,2961,17711,224,2444,5337,137066,12546,6620,137067],"class_list":{"0":"post-262065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-22-year-old-dart","9":"tag-analysis","10":"tag-betting-odd","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-charger","14":"tag-chargers","15":"tag-first-round-pick","16":"tag-game","17":"tag-giants","18":"tag-investment","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-live-update","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-times","23":"tag-losangeles","24":"tag-mississippi-quarterback-jaxson-dart","25":"tag-prediction","26":"tag-time","27":"tag-winless-new-york-giants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115283731706662854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262065","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=262065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}