Chargers rookie Joey Bosa, no doubt heeding the advice of his legal team, chose to miss a few workdays at Chargers Park this month due to an impasse in contractual talks.
Bosa continued to study his playbook, said friend and teammate Josh Perry.
How important are these nominal football practices in May and June? Chargers coach Mike McCoy, who wears T-shirts that read "Everything Matters," has cancelled the final practice of spring training each of the last three years.
Significant contact is largely incidental in the spring.
The padded practices in training camp allow intentional contact, which is to say training camp is when the actual football practices start.