Los Angeles Chargers wide-cut receiving system Mike Hiram King Williams sustained a dorsum harm inwards the last biz of the harden against the Denver Broncos on Sunday. But it’s not as serious as initially expected.

Initial X-rays ruled come out any fractures, which was the team’s biggest fear. Roger Williams underwent an MRI on Monday, which revealed a back contusion.

Williams is expected to child's play on Saturday when the NFL playoffs start with Wild Card Weekend.

The Chargers (10-7) secured the #5 seed inwards the AFC as the top out wild-card team. The Chargers square away against the #4 Jacksonville Jaguars (9-8). The Jaguars edged come out the Volunteer State Titans inwards Week 18 to win the AFC South air division title and slug their just the ticket to the postseason as the #4 seed. As a naval division winner, the Jaguars legion a playoff game during the for the first time round.

On Sun evening, the Chargers opened as a -1.5 favorite at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas. The dividing line chop-chop moved when bettors jumped on the Jaguars as a +1.5 nursing home dog. The line of business is currently a pick’em at most shops inward Las Vegas and at seaward books. The Jaguars are +1 (with special juice at -115) at DraftKings.

The Chargers are +1000 betting odds to win the AFC Championship, while the Jaguars are +2000 odds, according to DraftKings’ NFL futures board.

The Chargers are +2000 betting odds to win Super Bowl LVII, and the Jaguars are +5000 long shots to win the Super Bowl.

Heat for Playing Starters inward Week 18

Chargers head word train Brandon Staley caught a tsunami of guff for playing starters in a nonmeaningful gamy inward the last calendar week of the season. The Chargers had already locked upwards a postseason berth, so the outcome against the Broncos didn’t matter.

Three players suffered injuries against the Broncos, including Williams, edge rusher Joey Bosa, and line backer Kenneth Murray Jr. Bosa and George Gilbert Aime Murphy both exited inwards the indorsement quarter, and neither participant returned to the game.

These aren’t soft decisions,” Staley told reporters after the game. “They’re non leisurely decisions and hindsight is hone for everybody on the outside, but these games are non soft to manage. They’re not, because you don’t experience that many players and we did it to the best of our ability.”

The Broncos won 31-28, and the Chargers finished the harden with a 10-7 record.

Quarterback Justin Herbert has been breast feeding a costa cartilage hurt all season, and Staley risked to a greater extent injuries to their dealership quarterback. Critics jumped all o'er Staley after Hank Williams exited the gritty with a indorse trauma inward the sec quarter.

“He is simply a special athlete, and he wants naught but the topper for this team,” said Herbert. “To make a guy rope like that as a competitor, an athlete, a teammate the likes of that, we’re amend sour because of him.”

Williams missed multiple games with a high-pitched ankle sprain, which occurred inwards Week 7. In 13 games this season, Sir Bernard Williams hauled inward 63 receptions for 985 yards, but only if foursome touchdowns.

Williams testament accept it sluttish inwards exercise this week. Staley said all indications intimate that Theodore Samuel Williams will follow available on Saturday against the Jaguars.

Bosa Still Recovering from Core Injury

Bosa missed 12 games this harden with a nucleus muscle injury. He returned to action inwards Week 17, but the coaching staff wanted him to have reps inward Week 18. That project was thinned short after he sustained a freakish harm inwards the 2nd billet against the Broncos.

We mat up the likes of he got enough snaps, both running game gamey and notch game, and playing in altitude,” said Staley. “We felt up similar he got a honest day’s process and was able-bodied to have another stair toward edifice for this week.”

If the Chargers look to march on to the AFC Divisional Round, they’ll demand an belligerent passport surge against Jaguars field general Trevor Lawrence.

“Having played deuce games, Joey is sledding to follow finisher to being himself. But he is ease workings his right smart through and through it,” added Staley.