COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Just a day after the league placed him on the exempt list, the Los Angeles Chargers wasted little time and released center Max Tuerk.
The USC product was suspended for the first four games of the regular season without pay for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.
Drafted in the third round last year as the possible center of the future for the Chargers, Tuerk was a healthy scratch for all 16 games in 2016 coming off an ACL right knee injury that cut short his final season at USC.