Austin Ekeler said it, but you can safely bet Justin Herbert and the the Chargers as an organization all would be in some level of agreement — of course there’s pressure on the star quarterback. One could argue that there’s always pressure on the signal-caller (there is), but obviously, for Herbert, that all hits a bit differently this year.
Herbert, who signed a record-setting five-year, $262.5 million contract extension this offseason, will make an average of $52.5 million per year. And if it’s not stating the obvious, his teammate, running back Austin Ekeler told SI’s Robin Lundberg that Herbert, is “100%’ pressure on the quarterback, along with the entire team, going into this season.
“100 percent, there’s pressure on every one of us. For him, he just got paid all this money, so the organization’s going to want to see him play well, he’s going to want to see himself play well, I want to see him play well — he’s got a ton of pressure,” Ekeler stated.
