Benjamin caught two passes in the game for five yards, but he was targeted five times in the passing game. It was the catches he didn’t make that really hurt.
Trailing by seven points just after the two-minute warning and coming off a play in which the Chargers converted a 4th-and-13 to stay alive, Philip Rivers threw a pretty ball to a streaking Benjamin for what would have been a game-tying catch. The coverage was there, but the catch should have been made.
Benjamin dropped it. He’s dropped many passes before, but that one was big.