Los Angeles Chargers agreed to a five-year contract with central Corey Linsley, a source told Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.
The move fills a huge void for Chargers. Dan Feeney moved to the center last season from the guard after Mike Pouncey went on to reserve for injury in September with a hip injury. Pouncey retired this off-season.
Linsley received first team All-Pro honors last season, becoming the first Green Bay Packers center to do so since Jim Ringo in 1963.
He started 13 games, losing three due to a knee injury, but returning in time for the playoffs. He helped the Packers to tie for second place in the NFL with the least number of sacks allowed and was part of the NFL’s highest scoring attack.
The choice of the fifth round of 2014 in the state of Ohio became an immediate beginner as a newcomer and has 99 regular season seasons starting in the 2014 season. He has had an extension from the end of the 2016 season to the beginning of the season 2019, when he was on the field for more than 2,700 consecutive offensive clicks.
Linsley, 29, signed a $ 25.5 million three-year contract extension with Green Bay at the end of the 2017 season.
He was one of two offensive line holders for the Packers who entered the 2020 season in the last year of his contract. The team hired left All-Pro tackle David Bakhtiari for a four-year extension, $ 103.5 million in November. Bakhtiari tore his ACL in practice on December 31 and may not be ready for the start of the regular season.
ESPN’s Shelley Smith and Rob Demovsky contributed to this report.