According to Matt Szabo of the Los Angeles Times:
“They’re going to get a lot of work. It certainly is a deep position for us, and those guys all love to play and work hard. We love Melvin, but we’re going to go with what we’ve got. It’s a pretty dang good group.”
Philip Rivers: We love Melvin Gordon, but running back is a deep position for us https://t.co/UdFwnO2IwW
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) July 26, 2019
Whether or not this was intentional, it still looks bad.
Even some other NFL guys took note.