Chris Harris Jr. is a big loss if he's out Sunday.
This.
Something a lot of you probably didn't know, but Chris Harris has been by far our best and most consistent corner this season. He's the one guy we've relied on all season, and he got hurt about halfway through the game today with almost no announcements by the sideline reporters or commentators. Once he left, SD's defense went from doing nothing all game, to picking on Quentin Jammer and suddenly coming up with big plays.
It's a knee injury and he's getting tests done tomorrow. Beat writers are reporting that he's in good spirits (though they said the same about Von the night after he tore his ACL) and that the swelling is not that bad (not a doctor, no idea if that's indicative of anything or not).
A few unsubstantiated rumors on twitter from random people with "inside sources" that it's a torn ACL or MCL, but haven't seen anything even close to official.
If it's nothing and he can play, I do think our defense will surprise you. With the exception of only a few games, our rush defense was very good this season, and was very good today. If he can't play though and Jammer is starting in the secondary, yeah...we'll have issues.
I don't think our defense is as bad as a lot of people have been saying it is this year, and I think we'll see that play out next Sunday. I hope so, at least.