Chargers' Justin Herbert - It's an 'honor' to play for Jim Harbaugh - ESPN

COSTA MESA, Calif. — After his first minicamp under Jim Harbaugh, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert said that his new coach has already significantly changed the team and that it's been an «honor» to play for and share the quarterback room with him.

«He's done such a great job taking this team and getting them to where he wants them to go,» Herbert said. «He's won wherever he's at. He's a guy that everyone wants to follow and play for.»

Harbaugh often joins the players in post-practice lifts or specific drills. It's been a different experience than Herbert has had with any other coach, but it's one he's appreciated. Harbaugh has done pushups with linebacker Junior Colson, shown rookie quarterback Casey Bauman a proper dropback, and pulled hundreds of pounds of weights.

And Herbert said that Harbaugh doesn't playfully do these workouts; he's always trying to win.

«It's a cool experience to be able to share that with your head coach,» Herbert said. «Whether we're pulling sleds, he expects to be the fastest or to pull the furthest, and when we're carrying those med balls, he's wanting to go the furthest, he wants to go the fastest.

»And to have a guy like that set the stage, set the standard for these undrafted guys, for these rookies to see that, I think they follow in his footsteps."

Herbert's praises of Harbaugh have been a theme of the Chargers' offseason, as Harbaugh looks to turn around a team that was 5-12 last season and saw the departures of some of the franchise's best players in receivers Keenan Allen and Mike Williams and running back Austin Ekeler.

Harbaugh's attention to detail and energy has stood out to players the most so far. While other camps are more relaxed with players in baseball caps