Justin Herbert’s toughness, his stubbornness, his willingness to play despite an injury has been one of the Chargers’ great strengths as their starting quarterback. In just the past three seasons, he’s played with fractured rib cartilage in 2022 , a broken finger in ’23 and a sprained ankle in ‘24 .

Now, he has a fractured left hand, an injury that required surgery last Monday to insert a plate and screws to stabilize it. Officially, he’s listed as questionable to play in the Chargers’ game Monday night against the Philadelphia Eagles at SoFi Stadium. Unofficially, no one truly believes he’ll sit out.

If the fracture and the surgery were on his right, throwing hand, then there would be zero question but that Herbert would be done for the season and so would be the Chargers (8-4). But

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