The Los Angeles Chargers have signed wide receiver Gary Jennings, filling a corresponding roster spot after placing center Tyler Biadasz on injured reserve.
The move is a depth play as the Chargers close training camp and prepare for final roster cuts.
Jennings, 29, is a 6-foot-1, 214-pound receiver out of West Virginia. Seattle drafted him in the fourth round in 2019 (No. 120 overall). His only regular-season NFL appearance came that year with the Miami Dolphins.
He last sat on an NFL roster during Carolina’s 2023 training camp and has spent recent springs in the UFL, most recently with the St. Louis Battlehawks.
The Chargers brought him in as insurance after injuries to Quentin Johnston, Tre’ Harris, and Brenen Thompson. A strong week of practice could keep him around on the practice squad.
College production is the clearest marker of what Jennings can do when healthy and featured. In 50 games at West Virginia he caught 168 passes for 2,294 yards and 17 touchdowns. The signature year was 2017: 97 receptions for 1,096 yards, a 1,000-yard season that still ranks among the Mountaineers’ better single-year receiving totals.
As a senior in 2018, he added 54 catches for 917 yards and 13 touchdowns and earned All-Big 12 honorable mention. Those numbers explain why a team still looking for extra bodies at receiver would give him another look.
Context matters. Biadasz, signed in free agency to start at center, suffered a serious knee injury in a joint practice with San Francisco and is done for 2026.
Using that roster opening on a wideout rather than another interior lineman raised eyebrows among fans, but it matches the Chargers’ immediate need: bodies who can run routes while several receivers are limited. Jennings is not expected to push Ladd McConkey or other established targets for snaps.
He is a low-cost veteran who knows the speed of NFL practices and can contribute on special teams if he sticks.
For Jennings, it is another chance after years of bouncing between camps, practice squads, and spring football.
For Los Angeles, it is a typical late-August transaction: add a player with a proven college résumé, see if the rust comes off, and decide in a week whether he belongs on the 53 or the practice squad.
A 1,000-yard season at West Virginia does not guarantee an NFL role. It does, however, give the Chargers a reason to find out.
