McConkey Missed Wednesday Too

Ladd McConkey did not practice Wednesday, his second straight day out with the rib injury he picked up in Week 1. He's questionable for Week 2, which at this point means the Chargers are planning without him until told otherwise.

The response has been Marquez Valdes-Scantling on the practice squad — a 31-year-old with two Super Bowl rings and not much recent momentum, added Tuesday as emergency depth. Quentin Johnston is active and leads the depth chart at receiver. Behind him it gets thin fast.

This is the same structural problem that ran through the entire offseason, just wearing a different jersey number. The Chargers lost their starting center to a torn ACL before the season started, scrambled to fill the line, and now their leading receiver from 2025 is sitting out practice in Week 2. The roster was built without much margin for error. So far, the errors are arriving on schedule.