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Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n The Los Angeles Chargers\u00a0elevated running back Najee Harris from the non-football injury list to the active roster, according to Ian Rapoport. Harris continues to work his way back from an injury sustained in a fireworks accident, but his addition to the active roster is a step in the right direction as the Chargers prepare for their Week 1 game against the Kansas City Chiefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Najee’s doing great, going through all the medical processes,” LA general manager\u00a0Hortiz said during\u00a0Los Angeles’ preseason finale. “But he’s on track, and I think he should be able to go, hopefully in Week 1.”<\/p>\n Harris was present at a July 4 event wherein a fireworks accident injured several attendees. Antioch, Calf. police responded at 12:20 a.m. on July 5 and\u00a0said in a report\u00a0that some of the injured received treatment at the scene and hospitalization and that others drove themselves to the hospital.<\/p>\n Harris returned to practice on Aug. 12, though he was limited to participating in individual drills off to the side.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Chargers signed Harris, who rushed for at least 1,000 yards in each of his four seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, to a one-year contract worth $9.5 million in March. He projects to split carries with rookie running back Omarion Hampton, who joined the Chargers in April as 22nd overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getty Images The Los Angeles Chargers\u00a0elevated running back Najee Harris from the non-football injury list to the active roster, according to Ian Rapoport. Harris continues to work his way back from an injury sustained in a fireworks accident, but his addition to the active roster is a step in the right direction as the Chargers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2459,505,4519,10940,881,4521,293,5016,365],"class_list":{"0":"post-17997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-active","9":"tag-ahead","10":"tag-chargers","11":"tag-elevate","12":"tag-harris","13":"tag-najee","14":"tag-report","15":"tag-roster","16":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}