The Los Angeles Chargers were able to build some interesting teams under GM Tom Telesco, but his inability to consistently surround his solid quarterbacks with appropriate talent is perhaps the biggest reason his squads were unable to break through in the playoffs. Some of his receivers weren't just bad; they were all-time bad.
Pro Football Focus listed two different Chargers players as having the worst individual seasons at their positions in the last 20 years. LA joined the Houston Texans as the only team with more than one player on this list. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Chargers are responsible for the worst wide receiver and tight end seasons of the last two decades.
The worst wideout campaign was UDFA Andre Patton's 2019 season, while former third-round pick Tre' McKitty authored the worst tight end season in the PFF era in 2022. Both of those players were brought in by Telesco, who is looking worse as an executive with each passing season.
Tom Telesco's Chargers have worst WR, TE season of PFF era
While it may seem unfair to come down harshly on Patton due to his status as an undrafted player, especially on a team led by a 38-year-old Philip Rivers and a skeleton crew of coaches who were soon kicked out of town, playing a plurality of snaps and mustering 15 targets and six catches was undoubtedly an anchor on the team's offensive ceiling.
McKitty is the more egregious pick. Despite catching just 56 passes in his college career and six during his final season at Georgia, Telesco saw this prospect as being worthy of a third-round pick. Not only did his athletic traits fail to make him worth anything as a pass-catcher, but he was also a poor blocker.
McKitty had grades of below 49.0 in both run blocking and pass blocking. Even though he played over 500 snaps, McKitty was targeted just 17 times and caught 12 passes. Essentially, he was used as a sixth offensive lineman whenever he was out there, except he blocked like one of the worst offensive linemen in the league. Great team building, Tom!
Telesco may not have been the worst executive in the world, but he assuredly left some meat on the bone during the end of Rivers' Chargers career and the beginning of Justin Herbert's Los Angeles adventure. Giving these two tremendous quarterbacks players who coughed up some of the worst individual seasons PFF has ever seen can only reflect poorly on him.
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