With the 2025 NFL Draft only a week away, let’s take one final peek at what happened a year ago.
FOX Sports Research recently put together their rankings of the top 10 picks from the 2024 NFL Draft, with the Chargers earning praise with a pair of players on the list. The Bolts were the only team to have two of their rookies mentioned.
Chargers General Manager Joe Hortiz set the tone early with Joe Alt, who was stellar at right tackle for the Bolts last season and held it down from the jump on his way to earning PFWA All-Rookie Team honors.
Fox Sports ranked the No. 5 overall pick as the ninth-best player of last year’s class and the only offensive tackle to make the list.
They wrote:
In their first offseason at the wheel, general manager Joe Hortiz and head coach Jim Harbaugh prioritized the line of scrimmage for the Chargers offense, and the Notre Dame product rewarded their faith in him. Starting all but one game at right tackle, the 6-foot-8 Alt ranked 19th among offensive tackles in overall grade (77.6), 24th in pass-blocking grade (79.4) and 31st in run-blocking grade (71.6), per PFF.
All of those grades ranked first among all rookie tackles in 2024, as the Bolts were able to secure a tackle for the future in Alt.
