Los Angeles Chargers kicker Dustin Hopkins will miss two to four weeks with a strained right hamstring, coach Brandon Staley said Tuesday.
Hopkins injured the hamstring during the second quarter of Monday night’s game while kicking an extra point. He booted four field goals in the contest, including a game-winning 39-yarder in overtime to give the Chargers a 19-16 win over the Denver Broncos.
Hopkins said after the contest that he felt a pop in the hamstring area on the extra point.
Staley said that Taylor Bertolet will be the kicker when the Chargers host the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
Bertolet was signed to the practice squad on Oct. 6 and kicked for the Chargers in Week 5 while Hopkins was out with a quadriceps injury in his right leg.
He made three field goals and three extra points in a 30-28 win over the Cleveland Browns.
Hopkins has kicked in 109 NFL games with Washington (2015-21) and the Chargers (2021-22). He has made 190 of 224 field-goal attempts, a success rate of 84.8 percent.
Also, running back Joshua Kelley (knee) will be sidelined two to four weeks and tight end Donald Parham Jr. was placed in concussion protocol.
–Field Level Media