Antonio Gates Likely To Sit Out Last 2 Games

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Star tight end Antonio Gates likely will sit out the final two games of the regular season to rest his injured right foot in case the San Diego Chargers make the playoffs.

Gates has missed the last two games and four of six with a painful tear in his right plantar fascia. Gates says rest is the only way for the injury to heel. He says the team's other tight ends, Randy McMichael and Kris Wilson, are more than capable of doing the job.

In order to win their fifth straight AFC West title, the Chargers (8-6) need to win their final two games, at Cincinnati on Sunday and at Denver on Jan. 2, and have Kansas City lose once.

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