Source: Injury to Bolts' Mack not season-ending

LOS ANGELES -- Outside linebacker Khalil Mack's near elbow injury, which near him sidelined and successful a sling for overmuch of the Los Angeles Chargers' Week 2 triumph implicit the Las Vegas Raiders, isn't season-ending, a root confirmed to ESPN.

NFL Network was the archetypal to study the news.

Mack attempted a tackle successful the archetypal quarter, but his near manus got caught betwixt Chargers linebacker Troy Dye and Raiders wide receiver Tre Tucker, turning his elbow into an awkward position.

Mack jogged disconnected the tract holding his near hand, stopped connected the sideline and bent implicit successful agonizing symptom earlier heading to the locker room.

Mack returned to the Chargers' sideline successful the 2nd 4th with his elbow successful aesculapian wrapping and successful a sling.

He finished the crippled with 1 sack and 1 tackle successful the quarter. Mack has 12.5 vocation sacks against Las Vegas -- wherever helium played his archetypal 4 seasons of his vocation -- the astir by immoderate subordinate against a azygous hostile since 2021.

Mack, 34, signed a one-year $18 cardinal woody successful March, choosing to instrumentality to L.A. contempt contemplating status aft the 2024 season.

With Mack out, extracurricular linebacker Caleb Murphy saw an accrued workload, playing 31 antiaircraft snaps. Murphy finished 1 backmost pressure.