Chargers’ Ladd McConkey can finally learn from Keenan Allen in person

Even before Keenan Allen returned to the charge last week, he already had an impact in the receiver room.

As a recruit, Ladd McConkey studied Allen’s training film on his iPad issued by the team, trying to absorb the lessons of one of the best road runners in the League – the very player whose recusal records for receptions and McConkey reception yards would eventually exceed.

“You sit during team meetings, pull your iPad and just look,” said McConkey. “Look at his head on-one from previous years when he was here. I’m going to check this, see what he has.”

Now Allen, 33, and McConkey, 23, are inseparable on the ground. Throughout the training, McConkey chooses the brain of the veteran – something he says “would be stupid if I did not do it”.

“He has done so at a high level for a long time, so all knowledge that I can get, I will take it,” said McConkey. “He is very decisive and intelligent … He knows how to win by using the lever effect. He does not come just in front of you – he can settle at the top, stick and he has big hands.”

The perspective that the two play in the same offense excite McConkey, which says that any doubt about their chemistry can be put aside because “in this offense, we can all move.”

“We can all run in different positions and diagram as they wish,” added McConkey. “This is something that is really good in our receivers, and we are all very versatile.”

It was the first day when the two were able to participate in the same session of 11 against 11, with McConkey returning from an uncompromising injury which put it aside for several training sessions and Allen returned last week.

The offensive coordinator Greg Roman said that Allen’s presence had already made a difference, noting: “We have always known that he was a great player, but now that he is here, he has proven it again … Keenan creates flexibility for us and makes us stronger.”

“Our training staff does an excellent job acclimatizing, putting it at speed,” said Roman. “We take the next day, gradually … enter the form of football.”

Rotation of the ball carrier

Sometimes last season, when they were in good health, the charges turned up to three deeply in the ball.

With Najee Harris – expected at a given time – and the choice of first round Omarion Hampton planned to manage most of the litters, there is always an opening for a third in the Romanesque system.

With Hampton sitting on Sunday’s pre-season match against New Orleans’ saints, many representatives were winning. Roman described it as a “wide open competition”.

“There will certainly be a rotation whatever happens,” said Roman. “We will try to keep the guys fresh throughout the match. I think that the days of a ball carrier taking each representative by the way of prehistoric creatures. ”

This leaves the place to be won between the second year back Kimani Vidal – which started on Sunday and finished with six races for 16 yards – and the recruit not drafted Raheim Sanders, who had 10 races for 42 yards and a touch.

“He [Sanders] did an excellent job, has somehow created certain things by itself, “said Sanders.” took care of the defense in the fourth quarter … many [drive] He was beating the rock. He did a very good job for his first game. »»

Sanders faces a climb, however. Vidal has just come out of a recruited season during which he made his way to hope for the list of fringes towards the contributor, listing 53 men and appearing in six games.

In training, the two continue to fight for a good part of representatives, with Hassan Haskins mixed.

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The quarter -arre Trey Lance has spent exercises on a team on Tuesday, which, according to Roman, was simply a day of rest after Lance played most of the match on Sunday – stressing that it was not linked to injuries … goalkeeper Mekhi Becton has now missed two weeks of complete practice when he continues to “work on something”.