As mentioned above, the Chargers have essentially done all of their homework ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft.

That includes hosting players on Top 30 visits, which gives the team a chance to meet with a player and get to know them in their own facility.

The Bolts, and every other NFL team, can schedule up to 30 of this visits (hence the name). Hortiz on Thursday explained how and why the Chargers maximize their visits.

"We use it for a lot of different reasons. People try to figure out what teams use it for, is it a smokescreen? I want to get to know some players. There's some players I want to get to know," Hortiz said. "There's some players, I didn't meet [them] at the Senior Bowl, I didn't meet him at the East-West, I didn't meet him at the Combine because you only get 45 interviews at the Combine.

"There's some players that I haven't had the chance to talk to. I just want to meet them, I want to shake his hand, talk to him, get a feel for him, let Chad get a chance to talk to him, our coaches," Hortiz continued.

"Then there's other reason, we may have some questions on them, maybe we didn't have enough time with him at the Senior Bowl or at the Combine where we wanted to dig deeper into some questions we had or maybe a medical reasons," Hortiz added. "All different reasons, there's no one reason. Some teams talk about, I hear it, some teams bring a bunch of guys that they're not interested in. We bring in guys we want to get to know a little bit better."

Alexander followed up with a detailed answer of his own.

" A lot of these guys have remarkable stories and our scouts do a great job of getting the background information. They do a great job of going in, talking to sources," Alexander said. "And a lot of times when they're talking about these players in the meetings, it really sparks our interest and we really want to get to know more about the players, or we might have questions about other things.

"So we bring them in, get a chance to talk to them in a little bit more of a relaxed environment than the Combine or the Senior Bowl or All-star games and stuff like that. It's really cool to be able to talk to them," Alexander added.

Does that mean the Chargers will draft a player they bring in? No.

And it's worth noting that the Bolts did not host Alt on a visit last year because they already felt overly comfortable with him.

"It's a fun process. They come in, they go to dinner, they relax a little bit. We're not looking to grill them and put them under the spotlight," Hortiz said. "We want to get to know the guy, so we get to take them out to dinner, our coaches get to hang out with him at dinner.

"Our personnel assistants get to hang out with him at dinner, and then we get to bring them in the office and show them around, let them spend time with everyone in the organization. It's great," Hortiz added.

The first two days of the draft will certainly draw most of the media attention next week.

Besides holding the 22nd pick, the Bolts also have Pick Nos. 55 and 86 on Day 2.

The Chargers also hold a whopping seven picks on Day 3, a haul that includes four picks in the sixth round.

Hortiz said the mindset inside the building is to try and find some hidden gems.

"I just think it's an opportunity late in the draft to really try to hit on great opportunities, like great sleepers finds in the draft," Hortiz said. "Day 3 is when, and I'll say this again on Friday night, Day 3 is when the scouts get really excited. And the coaches too, because they've looked at all these players.