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The Chargers have a top-five NFL wide receiver corps - Matt Harmon
Two of Benjamin's other highly run routes, the slant and post, are perfect for the timing-based passing attack San Diego runs. He also demonstrated great ability to sell the deep route before breaking off to the more shallow portions of the field. Often times, when a player is that good as a deep threat, you just want them to be competent in the other portions of the game. Benjamin's 80.4 percent score on slants and 75.8 percent on posts are well above the NFL average for each pattern, showing he passes the test with more than just competence.

Fantasy football depth charts: San Diego Chargers - Jeff Ratcliffe
While it hasn’t necessarily been sexy, Rivers has finished as a top-12 fantasy quarterback in seven of the last eight seasons. Over that span, he has topped 4,000 yards seven times, with his career high of 4,792 coming last season. He also went over the 30-touchdown mark on four occasions. In 2015, Rivers led the NFL in dropbacks (710), passing attempts (661) and completions (437). However, just 45.2 percent of Rivers’ yards came through the air. Still, Rivers put up a career-best total with a patchwork receiver corps for much of the year. With a better compliment of receiving weapons, Rivers remains a fringe QB1 option.

Joey Bosa's replacement Darius Philon thriving in first days of Chargers camp - Eric Williams
"Whether I’m with the starters or the 3s, I’m going to always work at it as I’m taking my last rep," Philon said. "It doesn’t matter where I go or where I practice, I’m just here to help the team in any way possible."

Pads go on, two Bolts linemen stand out - Tom Krasovic (UT$)
A day after Stevie Johnson sustained a knee injury, Rivers and Williams continued to build a rapport. The two seldom working together last year because Williams, then an undrafted rookie, was low on the depth chart.

Danny Woodhead wouldn’t stop talking about ‘The Waterboy’ in amazing interview - Nate Scott
Danny Woodhead is one of the smallest and low-key funniest players in the NFL. The video of him pleading with Patriots fans to buy his jersey in a sporting goods store is genius, but he may have outdone himself with his appearance on 1090 AM on Monday. The interview had some gems.