17. Los Angeles Chargers
Current cap space: $48,707,802
Primary free agents: QB Philip Rivers, RB Melvin Gordon, TE Hunter Henry, S Adrian Phillips
The Chargers seem prepared to move on without quarterback Philip Rivers, the most prominent free agent on their list when the new league year turns over, and the team’s starting quarterback since 2006. It will make a potential free agency of veteran quarterbacks even more interesting, though Rivers’ turnover rate (20 interceptions last season, and several in crucial moments) is cause for concern.
For the Chargers, who finished with a league-worst minus-17 turnover differential and were 2-9 in one-possession games, the hope is that luck will turn in their favor in 2020. Without Rivers, the team’s quarterback depth chart consists of Tyrod Taylor and Easton Stick, so if the Rivers era is over, general manager Tom Telesco and head coach Anthony Lynn had better be ready to pin their hopes on the right replacement.