Justin Herbert (conceived March 10, 1998) is an American football quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played school football at Oregon and was drafted by the Chargers in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Early years

Justin Herbert was conceived on March 10, 1998, later going to Sheldon High School in Eugene, Oregon where he lettered in varsity football, ball, and baseball.

As a senior, he went for 3,130 yards and 37 touchdowns with 543 surging yards and 10 hurrying touchdowns and was named first Team All-State and the Southwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year.

Herbert grew up a short ways from Autzen Stadium and has been a Duck fan since he was a kid. His granddad, Rich Schwab, played beneficiary at Oregon in the 1960s.

Herbert endured a messed up leg in the third round of his lesser season at Eugene's Sheldon High School. His messed up leg entangled his enlistment procedure and at first no significant projects offered a grant subsequently.

Northern Arizona, Portland State, and Montana State every single expanded idea before Nevada and Oregon caught up with his just FBS offers. Herbert focused on his old neighborhood Ducks on October 9, 2015.

School vocation

2016 season

Entering his actual green bean season recorded as QB2 on the profundity chart, Herbert turned into the primary genuine rookie at Oregon to begin at Quarterback since Chris Miller in 1983 when the Ducks took on most outstanding adversary Washington on October 8, 2016.

Despite setting or rising to Oregon's single-game records for complete hostile yards (512), passing yards (489), and touchdown passes (6), the Ducks got done with their most exceedingly terrible season in 25 years, going 4–8 and neglecting to make a bowl game without precedent for over a decade.

Herbert turned into the beginning quarterback after the fifth round of the period and displayed his abilities tossing for 1,936 yards remembering 19 touchdowns with only four block attempts for eight beginnings and drove a dig out from a deficit furious about #11 Utah with four touchdowns in the last 15:27 of the game to conquer a 14–3 shortfall.

On the last drive, he finished 6-of-9 goes for 63 yards with a 17-yard match dominating TD go with two seconds left.

2017 season

The Ducks entered the 2017 season with another lead trainer Willie Taggart after Oregon terminated Mark Helfrich following the 2016 season.

Leading the Ducks to a 4–1 beginning, Herbert's change from the Chip Kelly/Mark Helfrich period "Obscure Offense" to Taggart's "Inlet Coast Offense" was effective before he cracked his collarbone against Cal on September 30, 2017.

Without Herbert in the lineup, the Ducks dropped four of their next five games, and the offense went from averaging 49.2 focuses per game to simply 15.0 focuses per game.

Herbert came back to enable the Ducks to win their last two ordinary season games to become bowl eligible. The Ducks were chosen to play Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl yet their presentation bombed and the Ducks lost 38–28 after lead trainer Willie Taggart left the group to turn into the lead trainer at Florida State seven days before their bowl game.

In 8 beginnings, Herbert had a 6–2 record and tossed for 1,983 yards on 139-of-206 passing endeavors (67.5%), including 15 touchdowns against just five capture attempts. He additionally hurried the ball multiple times for 183 yards and five touchdowns.

Herbert was named first-group CoSIDA Academic All-American with a 4.08 evaluation point normal in biology.

2018 season

Herbert entered his third university season as an early Heisman Trophy up-and-comer in spite of being trained by a third extraordinary lead trainer just as exploring his third unique hostile plan with new lead trainer Mario Cristobal changing from the spread offense to the gun offense.

Herbert drove the Ducks to a 9–4 record and a triumph in the Redbox Bowl. He completed the year with 3,151 passing yards, 29 passing touchdowns, and two surging touchdowns.

His 31 all out touchdowns were useful for second in the Pac-12 Conference behind Washington State's Gardner Minshew. He was named to the Pac-12 All-Academic first-team.

2019 season

On December 26, 2018, Herbert declared that he would come back to Oregon for his senior season. He drove his group to a 12–2 record and to a success in the Rose Bowl, wherein he won the Offensive MVP grant.

Notwithstanding his on-field achievement, Herbert was named the 30th beneficiary of The William V. Cambell Trophy. For winning this honor, which is alluded to as the "Scholastic Heisman," Herbert was respected during the 2020 College Football Playoff National Title Game.