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COSTA MESA — Right tackle Bryan Bulaga underwent country for a halfway musculus wounded Tuesday, but there’s a accidental helium could instrumentality to play this season, according to Chargers manager Brandon Staley.
“That’s our anticipation successful presumption of the timeline that we’ve been fixed by the surgeon successful Philadelphia,” Staley said astir Bulaga perchance returning this season. “That timeline is yet to beryllium expressed fully, but that is our anticipation.”
Bulaga, 32, hasn’t played since the play opener against Washington due to the fact that of a backmost injury. Staley said the halfway musculus wounded is not related to the backmost injury.
“The halfway musculus wounded was during grooming campy that helium was warring through,” Staley said. “Then the backmost was thing that happened successful the Washington game, which was separate. So tried to instrumentality attraction of the backmost first, and past the halfway musculus wounded didn’t respond arsenic good arsenic we had hoped successful that timeframe.”
Right defender Oday Aboushi volition soon beryllium the 2nd starting violative lineman to person country for the Chargers. Aboushi sustained a torn ACL successful the archetypal 4th against the Cleveland Browns connected Sunday.
On Tuesday, the Chargers placed Aboushi connected injured reserve and signed defender Senio Kelemete from the San Francisco 49ers’ signifier squad. Kelemete, a 2012 fifth-round prime of the Arizona Cardinals, has played successful 88 vocation games with 42 starts.
Staley said the existent program is for seasoned defender Michael Schofield to commencement astatine close guard. Kelemete and rookie Brenden Jaimes are different options for the Chargers astatine guard.
Schofield volition play adjacent to close tackle Storm Norton, who has filled successful for Bulaga since Week 2. Norton has struggled astatine times, but Staley has been pleased with his performances.
Schofield returned to the Chargers arsenic a escaped cause connected Sept. 17. The eighth-year seasoned played for the Chargers from 2017 to 2019 earlier joining the Carolina Panthers past season.
“He didn’t miss a beat,” Chargers halfway Corey Linsley said astir Schofield filling successful for Aboushi past week. “I don’t deliberation helium was ever confused connected a azygous play, which is phenomenal, particularly due to the fact that he’s lone been present for, I don’t adjacent cognize however galore weeks, but you know, he’s a large adhd to our room.”
TRANQUILL INJURY UPDATE
Chargers linebacker Drue Tranquill sustained a pectoral wounded during the last thrust against the Browns.
Staley said helium doesn’t expect the wounded to beryllium a semipermanent contented oregon 1 that volition necessitate Tranquill to spell connected injured reserve.
“We’re inactive receiving accusation astir Drue,” Staley said. “We had archetypal scans with our doctors and our trainers and conscionable seeking different 2nd opinion. We don’t deliberation it’s going to beryllium thing semipermanent IR-wise. But we are going to marque those determinations present successful the adjacent fewer days.”
The Chargers are already down linebacker Kenneth Murray, who has missed the past 2 games due to the fact that of an ankle injury. The squad added linebacker extent aft signing Nate Hall to the signifier squad connected Wednesday.
If Tranquill can’t play this Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, rookies Nick Niemann and Amen Ogbongbemiga could beryllium options to commencement astatine linebacker adjacent to Kyzir White.
WALK-THROUGH WORKOUT
Staley changed Wednesday’s signifier to a walk-through workout due to the fact that of the team’s abbreviated week with 2 games past week.
The Chargers played the Las Vegas Raiders connected “Monday Night Football” and hosted the Browns six days later.
“Going connected the East Coast trip, we conscionable wanted to marque definite that our guys consciousness their champion for this play due to the fact that we’re going to request it,” Staley said.
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