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Camp Report: Bolts Have Red-Zone Focus on Day 13

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Day 13 of Chargers Training Camp is in the books as the Bolts held a 90-minute session in pads on Wednesday.

The Bolts will practice at 4 p.m. Thursday in advance of Saturday's preseason opener against the Seahawks at SoFi Stadium.

Here is the Chargers Camp Report from Wednesday's practice:

1. Lots of red-zone work

The Bolts spent multiple practice periods inside the red zone Wednesday as starters on both sides of the ball made highlight plays.

The first drill pitted the first-team units against each other at the 10-yard line and in.

The offense struck first when Easton Stick found Simi Fehoko for a score.

But the defense rallied for two straight stops as they forced incompletions on passes to Stone Smartt and Brenden Rice.

Smartt held onto Stick's pass at the edge of the end zone but barely missed getting his second foot down as the defense earned the overall win in the drill.

The Chargers later had their first-team units go against the reserves inside the 20-yard line.

Stick opened the drill with a 16-yard touchdown pass to DJ Chark before following up with another score from 11 yards out to Fehoko.

Safety Akeem Dent, who recorded an interception earlier in practice, then tallied a pass breakup in a win for the defense.

Stick and Co. responded with another touchdown to Chark for their third score of the sequence.

The Bolts first-team defense then trotted onto the field and shut out the reserve offensive group.

A pressure from Tuli Tuipulotu disrupted the first play before Khalil Mack registered a tackle for loss on the ensuing run play.

Pass breakups by Daiyan Henley and Bud Dupree soon followed, with the later nearly getting an interception at the line of scrimmage.

2. Dicker perfect on the day

Cameron Dicker kicked in a team drill for the second straight day ... with a twist.

The Bolts kicker didn't attempt any kicks on the built-in uprights at The Bolt. Instead, he focused on aiming against a portable goal post featuring uprights that are about half the width of a regulation setup.

Dicker still managed to deliver by making all six of his kicks against the narrower goal posts. For reference, standard NFL goal posts are 18 feet, six inches wide while the ones Dicker kicked against Wednesday are only nine feet wide.

Dicker was true from 43, 46, 50, 41, 48 and 45 yards out and has now made 41 of 44 field goals in camp.

JK Scott also had a great day, showing off impressive hangtime on a live punt where the ball seemed to hang up in the air for nearly six seconds.

3. Shuffling the O-line

Trey Pipkins III returned to practice Wednesday after missing the past three practices.

And while Pipkins lined up in his usual right guard spot up front to open practice, he didn't participate in the entire session and rotated with both Jordan McFadden and Foster Sarell.

The Bolts starting line of, from left to right, Rashawn Slater, Zion Johnson, Bradley Bozeman, Pipkins and Joe Alt was the unit to open team drills.

McFadden then took Pipkins' place for the next team drill before Pipkins resumed right guard duties for half of the next drill. Sarell came in and played snaps at right guard.

The Bolts second-team line initially consisted of, from left to right, Alex Leatherwood, Willis Patrick, Brenden Jaimes, McFadden and Sarell. Brent Laing later bumped up to the second-team line when McFadden replaced Pipkins.

The third unit was from left to right, Leatherwood, Karsen Barnhart, Bucky Williams, Laing and Tyler McLellan.

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