The Los Angeles Chargers have agreed a five-year contract with free agent Corey Linsley, an ESPN source Jeremy Fowler said.
The move fills the Chargers a huge gap. Dan Feeney moved off the guard last season after Mike Pouncey left on an injured reserve with a hip injury in September. Pouncey retired this season.
Linsley earned All-Pro honors for last season, becoming the first Green Bay Packers center to do so since Jim Ringo in 1963.
He started 13 games, of which he missed three due to a knee injury, but returned in time for the playoffs. He helped the Packers a second time in the NFL in the least allowed pockets and was part of the top score in the NFL.
The 2014 fifth-round pick from the state of Ohio immediately started as a rookie, and 99 seasons for the regular season start from that 2014 season. He had a while from late in the 2016 season to early in the 2019 season when he had more than 2,700 straight offensive snaps on the field.
Linsley, 29, signed a $ 25.5 million three-year extension with Green Bay late in the 2017 season.
He was one of two attacking linebackers for the Packers entering the 2020 season in the final year of his contract. The team signed David Bakhtiari, the All-Pro left-hander, for a four-year extension of $ 103.5 million in November. Bakhtiari tore his ACL into practice on December 31 and may not be ready for the start of the regular season.
ESPN’s Shelley Smith and Rob Demovsky contributed to this report.