LOS ANGELES -- The Chargers were at the forefront of trade speculation surrounding their No. 5 pick in the months leading up to the NFL draft, and coach Jim Harbaugh and general manager Joe Hortiz didn't do much to calm the noise.
Hortiz consistently said that the Chargers were open to trading the fifth pick and believed they essentially had the draft's first pick because four quarterbacks could go ahead of them.
Harbaugh raved so much about his former quarterback, Michigan's J.J. McCarthy, that some teams began to believe that Chargers Pro Bowl quarterback Justin Herbert was available for trade.