Joe Hortiz has an excellent start to his first free agency yesterday. Great process and some pretty great dumb luck intersected to open some options for how Hortiz choses to navigate the rest of free agency.
Alohi Gilman retained
In the first post-Tom Telesco offseason, we have the privilege of seeing his first Day 3 selection sign a second contract with the Chargers. That says as much about Tom as it does Joe Hortiz. If Telesco were still running the program, it would have been fitting for Alohi to have been allowed to walk in free agency, and for Tom to backfill the position with a more expensive free agent alternative or a premium draft pick, like when Drue was allowed to walk and Eric Kendricks was brought in to replace him.