The Chargers are heading to the playoffs and Jim Harbaugh continues to prove he's unlike any other head coach in football.

In just one year with the Los Angeles Chargers, Jim Harbaugh has once again proven why he is among the best coaches at any level of football. A decade after nearly winning Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers and one year after winning a national championship at the University of Michigan,

Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers capped a successful regular season by earning a 34–20 win over the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 18. Jim Harbaugh's team took a bit to wake up and was trailing 10–9 late in the second quarter when Herbert found DJ Chark for a touchdown pass.

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The Chargers' 11-win season was the franchise's best showing in the regular season since 2018, when they won 12 games under Anthony Lynn. Herbert, Harbaugh and company are set to take on the Houston Texans in the wild-card round of the playoffs on Saturday, Jan. 11.

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Justin Patrick Herbert, born on March 10, 1998, in Eugene, Oregon, is the quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers in the NFL. He played college football at Oregon, winning the 2019 Pac-12 Championship and was drafted sixth overall by the Chargers in 2020.

The stats say Justin Herbert is elite. But the Chargers QB is still seeking his first playoff win. Will he get it this weekend?

Coming into the game, Herbert, in his fifth season in the NFL, had amassed 20,466 career passing yards, good for the second-most ever in a player's first five years in league history behind former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning (20,618). The former Oregon Ducks star needed just 153 yards to break the record.

The Texans reveal the final injury status for right guard Shaq Mason, with Saturday's playoff matchup vs. Chargers quickly approaching

It's another record for Justin Herbert. Actually, make that multiple records. Herbert hit 20,619 career passing yards in the first half Saturday, which passed Hall of Famer Peyton Manning for the most in NFL history through the first five seasons of a career.