The Los Angeles Chargers have agreed to terms with quarterback Trey Lance, the team announced Friday. The deal is for one year and worth up to $6.2 million, a league source confirmed. ESPN first reported the news.
Lance was the No. 11 quarterback and No. 136 overall player on The Athletic’s updated top 150 free agents list. The No. 3 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers, Lance has appeared in 12 games during his NFL career, including five starts.
He spent the first two seasons of his career with San Francisco and played in six games as a rookie, making two starts. He then opened 2022 as the 49ers’ starting quarterback but missed the rest of the season following an ankle injury in Week 2.
Lance was traded to the Dallas Cowboys ahead of the 2023 regular season and has spent the past two seasons there. He did not play in a regular-season game in 2023 but made four appearances last season. Lance played in his first game for Dallas in Week 10 as a backup to Cooper Rush following starter Dak Prescott’s season-ending injury in Week 9. He then made his first start for the Cowboys — and first NFL start since September 2022 — in Week 18, completing 20 of 34 passes for 244 yards in the regular-season finale against the Washington Commanders and rushing for another 26 yards on six carries.
In his 12 career appearances, Lance has thrown for 1,063 yards and five touchdowns to four interceptions, while rushing for 276 yards and a touchdown. He now joins Taylor Heinicke, who signed a one-year extension with the Chargers in March, to back up Justin Herbert.
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