Chargers with out prime receivers Keenan Allen, Mike Williams vs. Falcons

COSTA MESA, Calif. – The Los Angeles Chargers exited a bye week anticipating to be more healthy than once they entered it.

No such luck.

The Bolts (4-3) can be with out their prime two receivers in a Week 9 matchup in opposition to the Atlanta Falcons (4-4) at Mercedes Benz Stadium.

Keenan Allen has been dominated out due to a left hamstring harm and Mike Williams additionally has been dominated out due to a excessive ankle sprain.

Huge receiver DeAndre Carter, additionally a return specialist, is listed as questionable after coming down with an sickness Friday. And the Bolts’ harm points coming off an open date do not cease there.

With beginning kicker Dustin Hopkins sidelined since Week 7 due to a proper hamstring harm, the Bolts turned to practice-squad kicker Taylor Bertolet. Nonetheless, Bertolet suffered a quadriceps harm throughout apply Wednesday and the Chargers have since signed Cameron Dicker to the apply squad.

Dicker, a rookie who transformed two-of-two discipline purpose makes an attempt for the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 5, is anticipated to kick Sunday.

And tight finish Donald Parham Jr., coming off being sidelined due to a concussion in Week 7, is now once more coping with a hamstring harm that stored him sidelined the primary 4 video games of the season.

Parham has been dominated out.

“Our guys know that is a part of the sport,” coach Brandon Staley stated of the quite a few accidents. “You have to stick collectively by way of conditions like this.”

After spending 5 video games on the sideline, Allen seemed to be on the mend from the nagging difficulty when he performed within the first half of a 37-23 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Week 7 and caught two passes for 11 yards.

However Allen stated he reaggravated the harm whereas coaching through the bye week. “I do not suppose it was a restrain or something,” Allen defined earlier this week. “It’s just a few extra scar tissue that’s making an attempt to interrupt off and at any time when it is able to heal, simply received to let it do its personal factor.”

If the absence of Allen and Williams, and with uncertainty round Carter, the Chargers are anticipated to show to Joshua Palmer, who didn’t play in Week 7 due to a concussion, Michael Bandy and Jason Moore Jr.