Chargers to gather for fitness work

BasX · Mar 30, 2009

Chargers players – up to 30 of them on a given day – have been working out at the team's facility for several weeks.

Today begins the team's organized conditioning drills, which almost every player on the roster is expected to attend.

Shawne Merriman has been working at the facility (and away from it) most days. He is out of town today and will not attend the opening conditioning session but will be there later in the week.

After a season off following major knee surgery, Merriman is by many accounts back to full strength already.

“I feel great, and I look amazing,” Merriman said last week.

Darren Sproles also will be at the conditioning sessions, which will run four days a week with different groups going in separate sessions. Sproles, who has yet to sign his franchise tender, likely will sit out minicamp and the coaching sessions in May, when there is more contact and risk of injury, if a long-term deal has not been reached. Talks between his agent and the team are ongoing.

The Chargers are not concerned about Sproles' potential absence. He is among the team's hardest workers, in season and out.

“I know there are going to be some things that are limited, but I expect him to take part in most of (the offseason),” Chargers coach Norv Turner said. “You always want them there, you always want everyone there. But he does a great job of getting himself physically ready. . . . Darren will continue to do that.”

The conditioning sessions are optional, but the Chargers have consistently had near 100 percent attendance.

“The guys who were our top guys in our offseason program (last year) had great years,” Turner said. “It happens that way. . . . It's not a coincidence.”

In the Union-Tribune on Page D6
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