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Khalil Mack’s done a lot of things on a football field. On Sunday, at 32 years old, he did something he hadn’t before.
And a week earlier, on the Chargers’ team plane, his coach, Brandon Staley, may have foretold the moment Mack was about to have as the players boarded for the flight home after a dramatic Week 3 win over the Vikings. Staley went to find his star edge rusher and, when he spotted him, held two fingers close together—a sign the two have shared since Staley was Mack’s position coach in Chicago back in 2018.