Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is testing out tinted contact lenses as training camp opens.

He wore them Thursday under sunny skies after trying them out earlier in the week while working with the team’s rookies.

‘They’re like sunglᴀsses,’ he said. ‘They really helped. I didn’t have to squint nearly as much.’

Herbert tried wearing a tinted visor a couple years ago and didn’t like having to constantly clean it off.

The contacts make Herbert’s blue eyes appear red.

‘When I stepped in the huddle, I think some of the guys were a little surprised,’ he said, smiling, ‘but they were like, “Oh, we´re going to score”.’

Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is testing out tinted contact lenses during training camp

Herbert tried a tinted visor a couple years ago and didn’t like having to constantly clean it off

Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker told ‘The Herd with Colin Cowherd’ that he and Herbert wore the red contacts to dinner recently.

‘We looked like we were vampires,’ Dicker said, adding that initially people didn’t recognize them. ‘We were like, “This is incredible”.’

Herbert said he thinks he could wear the contacts in games with a medical prescription due to sensitive eyes.

‘If I’m able to see the field better because of it, it definitely helps,’ he said.

It comes after Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams retired from the NFL at age 30 on Thursday.

His agent, Tory Dandy, told general manager Joe Ortiz on Wednesday night, hours before the Chargers became the first NFL team to open training camp.

Williams signed a $6million, one-year deal in mid-March to return to the Chargers for his second stint with the team. On Monday, he was placed on the physically unable to perform list with an undisclosed injury and two days later called it quits.

‘It’s obviously a tough situation,’ Herbert said. ‘Football, at the end of the day, is a game and there’s more to life than just football and I’m just hoping for the best for him.’

Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams retired from the NFL at age 30 on Thursday

Williams played eight seasons in the NFL, including stints with both the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024.

‘I don´t want to say shocking,’ safety Derwin James said of the news, ‘but definitely I’d love to have him out there with me.’

Coach Jim Harbaugh made no mention of Williams’ decision when he spoke to media earlier Thursday.

The Chargers drafted Williams in the first round with the seventh overall pick in 2017. 

He had 330 career receptions, 5,104 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions over his eight-year career.