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COSTA MESA, Calif. -- For all the hard work that comes with becoming a college football player in a Division I power conference, and then being drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft, there is one series of moments that Asante Samuel Jr. points to as being the key to who he is. That came when he was 14 and his mother, Candace Doe, came back from the doctor after a week of dizzy spells and announced to her family that she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Samuel Jr. (known as AJ) was the oldest of nine siblings in a blended family and was about to be...

The 2021 NFL draft is being held Thursday through Saturday and every Los Angeles Chargers' draft pick will be analyzed here. After last season's virtual draft, Cleveland is playing host to festivities this year with a handful of potential draft picks present and socially distanced because of COVID-19. Here's a pick-by-pick look at how each player Los Angeles has selected will fit. Round 1, No. 13 overall: Rashawn Slater, OT, Northwestern Rashawn Slater is the first offensive lineman the Chargers have used a first-round pick on since D.J. Fluker in 2013.  Jared Wickerham / ESPN Images My take...