Chargers News: LA Assistant Coach Singles Out Key Offensive Free Agent Signing

Alex Kirschenbaum | Apr 10, 2024

Sep 17, 2023; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Detroit Lions defenders try to contain Seattle Seahawks tight end Will Dissly. / Kirthmon F. Dozier-USA TODAY Sports

In his remarks to the press earlier this week, new Los Angeles Chargers running game coordinator and tight ends coach Andy Bischoff registered particular enthusiasm for 27-year-old new tight end Will Dissly, according to Daniel Popper of The Athletic. Poached by Los Angeles from the Seattle Seahawks as a free agent, Dissly inked a three-year, $14 million contract with LA. The agreement includes $10 million in guaranteed money.

“You’re talking about one of the three guys in the league that can own the C-gap, period,” Bischoff raved. “There’s not many of them. This is a different kind of football league we live in now, and to have a tight end that can own the C-gap is rare. He’s one of those guys.”

Popper considers Dissley the most elite blocking tight end rostered by the Bolts since Hunter Henry, who hasn't been with the club since 2020.

The team also inked tight end Hayden Hurst to a one-year, $1.1 million free agent deal. Bischoff applauded his athleticism.

Finally, incumbent tight end Donald Parham Jr. has been impressing the overhauled coaching staff's strength and conditioning team with some of his workouts. He's an injury risk, but Bischoff loves his upside.

“I look at this big, long individual with all of this mass and say, ‘How can we corral this to benefit us?'” Bischoff noted. “In football, there’s always examples of guys that didn’t perform somewhere that will perform somewhere else.”