Before the Bolts were on the clock in the sixth round, Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco made a difficult phone call.

Knowing the team was set to draft punter Drew Kaser out of Texas A&M, Telesco called veteran punter Mike Scifres to let him know the team was releasing him.

"Before we sent the pick in, I called Mike on the phone and told him our plan was we were going to draft a punter with this pick and that we're going to release him," said Telesco. "I told him how thankful we were for what he did for this community, number one. Number two, as a punter and a football player, he'll probably go down as the best punter in this organization's history. He's a great person. I have a lot of respect for him as a professional. It was a tough phone call to make but we just felt like it was the time."

Scifres was one of the longest-tenured Chargers on the roster spending 13 seasons in San Diego. As a fifth round pick (No. 149 overall) in the 2003 NFL Draft, he went on to play 195 games for the Bolts. He notched 756 punts with an average of 45.2 yards per punt which makes him the franchise's all-time leader for career punting average.

The adage of football being a business gets thrown around, but like when Scifres took over for former Chargers punter Darren Bennett, Kaser will get his chance to do the same. Head Coach Mike McCoy mentioned how Scifres was not only a true professional on the phone, but he will remain one of the Chargers' greatest players of all time.