The Chargers have brought back one of their receivers.
Los Angeles announced on Wednesday that the club has agreed to a contract with Jalen Reagor.
The length of the deal was not disclosed.
Reagor, 26, initially joined the Chargers on the club’s practice squad last September. He was signed to the 53-man roster in November.
He ended up appearing in eight games for the team with two starts. He caught seven passes for 100 yards and returned one kick for 22 yards.
An Eagles first-round pick in 2020, Reagor has played 64 games with 27 starts for Philadelphia, Minnesota, New England, and Los Angeles. He’s recorded 86 receptions for 1,037 yards with four touchdowns.
The Chargers are keeping one of their defensive players.
Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, linebacker Troy Dye has agreed to a two-year deal with Los Angeles.
Dye’s contract is worth $5.5 million with a maximum value of $8 million.
After signing a one-year contract with the Chargers a year ago, Dye appeared in all 17 games with five starts. He was a heavy special teams contributor, playing 80 percent of the unit’s snaps. But he was also on the field for 29 percent of Los Angeles’ defensive snaps last season.
He finished the year with 57 total tackles, two tackles for loss, and 1.5 quarterback hits.
A fourth-round pick in 2020, Dye played his first four seasons with the Vikings.
When reports surfaced on Monday night of running back Najee Harris’s one-year deal with the Chargers, the only number provided what that the package had a value of “up to” $9.25 million.
More details have surfaced regarding the contract.
Per a source with knowledge of the terms, Harris will receive a signing bonus of $3.75 million and a fully-guaranteed base salary of $1.5 million. That’s a base value of $5.25 million — less than the $6.7 million fifth-year option that the Steelers didn’t exercise for 2025.
The remaining $4 million comes from incentives for rushing yards. The formula isn’t yet known. Harris has rushed for more than 1,000 yards in each of his four NFL seasons. The key will be whether another 1,000-yard season gets him to, or past, the magic number of $6.7 million.
The contract also shows that the running back market isn’t fully back. The great ones will get paid. Some of the rest of them will literally have to earn it, through in-season production.
If Harris hits all of his incentives, he’ll still fall $750,000 short of $10 million. Even as the top of the market has passed $20 million for the first time.
The Bosa brothers won’t be joining forces in San Francisco, after all.
Via Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, free-agent pass rusher Joey Boey has agreed to terms with the Bills. It’s a one-year, $12.6 million deal.
The Chargers cut Bosa last week. He was due to earn a $12.36 million roster bonus on Wednesday.
The money is low, even if the interest was significant. Bosa’s production has been limited over the years by injuries, which surely impacted his market.
Regardless, he gives the Bills another key piece as they try to get back to the Super Bowl for the first time in 32 years. And, frankly, the Bills are in better position to get there than his brother Nick’s current team.
Included last week in a purge of veterans from the Jacksonville roster, veteran tight end Evan Engram is looking for a new team.
His search continued on Tuesday, with (per NFL Media) a visit to the Chargers.
Engram visited the Broncos on Monday.
A first-round pick in 2017 from Mississippi, Engram has spent five years with the Giants and three with the Jaguars. He made the Pro Bowl in 2020 and 2023.
His best season came in 2023, with 114 catches for 963 yards. Injuries limited him to nine games in 2024. He caught 47 passes for 365 yards in his final season in Jacksonville.
Will Dissly is the top tight end on the L.A. roster. He caught 50 passes for 481 yards and two touchdowns in 2024, his first year with the Chargers.
Cornerback Kristian Fulton couldn’t beat the Chiefs as a member of the Chargers in 2024 and he’ll be joining them in 2025.
According to multiple reports on Tuesday, the Chiefs have agreed to terms on a two-year deal with Fulton. The deal calls for Fulton to make $20 million with $15 million in guaranteed money.
Fulton signed a one-year deal with the Chargers last year after spending four seasons with the Titans. He started 15 games over the regular season and playoffs and finished the year with 51 tackles, an interception, and seven passes defensed.
The Chiefs have also made agreements with running back Elijah Mitchell and tackle Jaylon Moore since the free agency negotiating period began on Monday.
Edge rusher Khalil Mack was set to become a free agent this week, but he never made it to the open market.
The Chargers and Mack agreed to a one-year deal that will keep the veteran edge rusher in Los Angeles for a fourth season. It will be Mack’s 12th NFL season overall and he said on Monday that he believes he has “a lot left to give the game.”
Mack would like to give what he has left to a contender and said he believes “you know you always have a chance to win” with a Chargers team with quarterback Justin Herbert, safety Derwin James, and head coach Jim Harbaugh. They didn’t take advantage of that chance in 2024 and Mack made it clear that’s his goal for 2025.
“Unfinished business,” Mack said, via the team’s website. “The relationships here that’s been built, unfinished business, knowing the potential for the group. I’m just ready to get back to work and not all the other extras and hoopla that come with going to a different place at this moment this time. I’ve got something I’m going to finish here.”
Mack won’t have Joey Bosa back with him on the edges of the defense as he pushes to finish the job, but his decision to re-sign suggests he still thinks that is within reach for the Chargers.
The Chargers have a new running back.
Najee Harris, Pittsburgh’s first-round pick in 2021, has agreed to terms with the Chargers. Per multiple reports, it’s a one-year deal worth up to $9.25 million. The base value was not disclosed.
Harris would have made $6.7 million in 2025, if the Steelers had exercised his fifth-year option. They did not, setting the stage for Harris to hit free agency.
He has never missed a game in four years, and he has four straight 1,000-yard seasons.
The Chargers’ top running back in 2024 was J.K. Dobbins. He became a free agent on Monday.
Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh values the running game. And so it’s no surprise that the Chargers are interested in adding the top free-agent running back.
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, the Chargers are pursuing Steelers running back Najee Harris, hopeful to close a deal.
A first-round pick in 2021, Harris has never missed a game. He’s had four straight, 1,000-yard rushing seasons.
That said, his career rushing average is 3.9 yards per carry. And he lacks the burst that was often displayed over the past three years by the other top running back in Pittsburgh, Jaylen Warren. Also, the Steelers opted not to exercise the fifth-year option on Harris’s rookie contract.
Still, durability means something. Especially for the Chargers, who have had way too many injured players in recent years. Harris is a tough, hard runner who just keeps going. He brings a toughness that can spread throughout a locker room. That’s got to be an attraction to Harbaugh and the Chargers.
And don’t overlook the connection between the Harbaugh brothers. Jim surely knows Ravens coach John’s opinions about Harris, after facing him numerous times over the past four years.
Last March, the Chargers added J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards. Edwards is out, and Dobbins is a free agent.
Defensive tackle Teair Tart will be staying put.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Tart has agreed to a new deal with the Chargers. Tart will return on a one-year contract worth $5.5 million.
Tart signed with the Chargers last August after spending the offseason with the Dolphins. He appeared in every game and had 29 tackles, five tackles for loss, a sack, an interception, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery.
Tart split the 2023 season between the Titans and Texans and spent his first three NFL seasons in Tennessee.
The Chargers have also agreed to re-sign edge rusher Khalil Mack and punter J.K. Scott. They are also set to sign former Steelers cornerback Donte Jackson, but wide receiver Josh Palmer and defensive tackle Poona Ford have agreed to deals with other teams.
