The Chargers will need to be at their best Thursday night at Kansas City. But they might not have their best running back or next-best running back against the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Chargers conducted a walk-through Monday but estimated that neither Melvin Gordon nor Austin Ekeler would have been able to participate in a full practice.
Gordon has sat out the last two games because of a sprained ligament in his right knee. He did not practice last week, either.
Ekeler suffered a neck injury — he called it a bruised nerve — near the end of the Chargers’ 26-21 victory Sunday over the Cincinnati Bengals.