Nine-time Pro Bowl edge Khalil Mack reached agreement Saturday with the Los Angeles Chargers on a one-year deal, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Mack’s deal with the Chargers is worth $18 million, sources said.
Mack would have been a free agent this week but now will be returning to Los Angeles for his 13th NFL season.
One of the great outside linebackers in league history, Mack, who won the Defensive Player of the Year award in 2016, had contemplated retiring after the 2024 season but opted to return to the Los Angeles Chargers for the 12th season of his career.
Mack, 35, had hoped to win his first playoff with the Chargers and make a run to the Super Bowl, but he fell to 0-6 in the postseason with L.A.’s loss to the New England Patriots. His counting stats were down in 2025, partly due to an elbow injury that sidelined him for four games, but Mack was still a difference maker on the Chargers’ defense. In the four weeks without Mack, L.A. allowed 579 yards rushing, the sixth most in the NFL. Since he returned in Week 7, until Week 18, when most Chargers starters sat out, L.A. allowed the fourth-fewest rushing yards (1,046).
Mack was selected with the fourth overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft by the Raiders and he spent his first four seasons in Oakland. He then was traded to the Chicago Bears at the beginning of the 2018 season.
He has 113 sacks in his career.
_ESPN’s Kris Rhim contributed to this report._