INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Justin Herbert avoided two rushers while he escaped the Chargers' collapsing pocket and chugged away on his sprained ankle. Throwing across his body on the move, he put a breathtaking pass about 19 yards downfield through a tiny window to a sprinting J.
K. Dobbins — who dropped it. Herbert's numbers weren't impressive in Los Angeles' 17-10 loss Sunday to the Kansas City Chiefs.
The fifth-year quarterback went 16 of 27 for 179 yards with one touchdown pass, thrown on the opening drive in the second straight loss for the Chargers (2-2). But given the extraordinary degree of difficulty Herbert faced, new Bolts coach Jim Harbaugh could only marvel at his quarterback's moxie. “Some of those throws that he made, I don’t have the adjective for it,” Harbaugh said.
“It’s warrior-like. It’s everything within his human power and then some, is the way I look at it. It’s incredible what he can do.
” Herbert incurred a high right ankle sprain last week in Pittsburgh , and he faced the Chiefs with a brace protecting an injury that is far from healed. But the quarterback apparently gave no consideration to the possibility of sitting out this week for extra rest heading into Los Angeles' bye week. “I looked at those guys in that locker room, and I know that everyone else in that locker room would do it as well," Herbert said.
"Everyone’s not feeling great. It’s the NFL. It’s a tough, it’s a brutal game, but I know that I left everything I h.
