The Los Angeles Chargers added quarterback Justin Herbert to the harm report Thursday with a foot harm after they stated they have been suggested to take action by the league.
In line with the group, nothing has modified since Herbert practiced Wednesday and spoke with the media after observe, apart from the steering from the league. Herbert was listed as a full participant at Wednesday’s observe.
Herbert missed most of coaching camp with what the group introduced as a plantar fascia harm to his proper foot. Herbert missed his first observe on Aug. 1. He was in a strolling boot for 2 weeks earlier than participating in a gradual return to play. Herbert returned to observe Aug. 19. Two days later, he had among the finest practices of his Chargers profession.
Herbert stated Wednesday his plantar fascia is 100% healed, although he added that he must handle his foot to some extent over the course of the season.
“It’s probably not on my thoughts proper now,” Herbert stated. “It’s a kind of issues that in case you get out in entrance of it, you do an excellent job on the again finish, whether or not it’s ensuring that you simply’re rehabbing and icing and doing all of the issues you could within the coaching room earlier than and after observe so that you don’t need to take care of it later. So long as we’re out in entrance of it, I believe it’ll be all proper.”
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It was Herbert’s first time talking publicly for the reason that group introduced the harm in an announcement.
Herbert, in keeping with the Chargers, injured his plantar fascia, the arch ligament within the foot that connects the heal to the massive toe. Herbert stated the the harm didn’t happen in a particular second. He stated the soreness he began feeling “in all probability occurred earlier than” the beginning of coaching camp on July 24.
“It was extra of a buildup,” he stated.
Herbert added: “That’s type of the troublesome half I instructed (the coaching employees), was I didn’t actually know when or what occurred. However we acquired higher, so we’re by it and we’re trying ahead.”
Herbert has managed accidents earlier than in his profession. In Week 2 of 2022, Herbert fractured his rib cartilage towards the Chiefs. He handled that for the remainder of the season.
Herbert stated this foot harm is “not as unhealthy as” the rib harm in 2022.
“I might have fought by it,” Herbert stated of the foot harm. “I might have performed by it. However (the coaching employees) talked about simply ensuring that if it heals up, will get higher over the 2 weeks, then you definitely gained’t have to fret about it once more. So I believe I felt comfy with the plan. All of us have been on the identical web page. And so long as I’m doing all the things I can treatment-wise to deal with it, it shouldn’t be a problem.”
Herbert is in line to begin Sunday within the Chargers’ season opener towards the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium.
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