Chargers given close to no chance to win their first Super Bowl in 2025

The Los Angeles Chargers are building something, even if it's being built slowly. 

The team has some of the correct ingredients, and it knows it. Jim Harbaugh is one of the better head coaches in the league. Justin Herbert has the talent; it's just about learning how to win. A Super Bowl window is beginning to inch open for the team, but how long is it going to take for the team to have a legitimate shot to go through it?

Not this coming season, if you agree with the thoughts of Brad Gagnon of Bleacher Report. Gagnon recently took a look at the 12 teams in the league still searching for their first Lombardi Trophy and assessed their chances of finally getting it done this year. 

The good news is that of those 12 teams, Gagnon ranked the Chargers with the fourth-best odds to win in this season. The bad news is that he gives them just a three percent chance to make that happen. Three. Percent. 

"The ceiling is high for a Los Angeles Chargers team that could well dethrone the vulnerable Chiefs in the AFC West if Jim Harbaugh can work his magic and quarterback Justin Herbert can continue to ascend. 

Los Angeles won 11 games last year as Herbert put together the best season of his career while supported by the league's top-rated scoring defense. Build on that in 2025 and the sky's the limit. 

That said, the Bolts benefited from a soft schedule in 2024. The league may be better prepared for them in Harbaugh's second season, and the division-rival Broncos are arguably riding a similar trajectory. 

This is a "you never know" scenario, but I wouldn't bet on it", wrote Gagnon. 

The only teams he ranked higher were the Detroit Lions (6 percent), Cincinnati Bengals (8 percent) and Buffalo Bills (20 percent). The Bills are a Super Bowl favorite for many this year, much of which is based on what most feel to be a weak schedule of opponents, but the fact that Gagnon still gives them just a 20 percent chance to win the Super Bowl may say that he just doesn't believe in a first-time winner this season much at all. 

The Chargers made the playoffs last year, but their lopsided defeat at the hands of the Houston Texans showed them that a Super Bowl run is still far away. Though just three percent seems low for any team coached by Harbaugh, the Chargers will need a lot of things to go right for them this year if they are going to finally win it all. 

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