
There are a million reasons why DeAndre Carter shouldn’t be in a Chargers uniform right now.
Carter arrived at Washington High School in Fremont as a 115-pound freshman, but football practice wore on him. His coach sent him home, where a 14-year-old Carter started vomiting. His father took him to the hospital, where the staff measured his blood sugar at 740. He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and shrunk to 72 pounds.