Through the first 12 weeks of this 2025 regular season, the Los Angeles Chargers have easily had one of the worst offensive lines in football. Truth be told, before the Week 13 slate kicked off on Thanksgiving Day—a Turkey Day that saw the Bolts get some unexpected help in the AFC playoff picture, by the way—the fine folks at PFF actually had the Chargers' O-line ranked as the worst in the entire NFL.
The trouble started before the season ever began when two-time Pro Bowl left tackle Rashawn Slater went down with a season-ending torn patellar tendon, an injury that basically forced Jim Harbaugh to move second-year stud Joe Alt from right tackle to the left side to take Slater's spot, then sliding Trey Pipkins III into the starting lineup to take Alt's place on the right side.