This past Thursday, the NFL approved the use of alternate helmets starting in 2022. This is amazing news because it deals away with the major inconvenience of the “one-helmet rule” that the NFL currently has in place. The rule forced NFL teams to get special permission to ever use a secondary helmet for a special throwback that they scheduled to wear that season. Now, clubs can can utilize even more jersey combinations and even invite the throwbacks into the lineup on a more frequent basis.
This doesn’t necessarily affect the Chargers all that much, but it officially means the team can rock the old navy helmets as part of their new navy alternate uniforms that debuted with the rest of the kits last April.