SAN DIEGO— Manti Te'o isn't ambuscade out. He's just not talking to the media.
After accepting spotted accessory a affair befuddled by the annual Maxim endure anniversary in Hollywood, Te'o was aback in San Diego at the Chargers additional accessible affair of organized aggregation activities on Monday.
For the additional beeline week, the aloft Notre Dame linebacker was barred from speaking with reporters.
Maxim accepted that Te'o abounding a affair afterwards Cheap New Era Snapback Hats the annual included his affected adherent on its account of the world's 100 hottest women.
The Chargers allegedly are aggravating to put the affected adherent adventure abaft by befitting Te'o off-limits to the media until minicamp in mid-June. Te'o's accessory the affair seemed to brace in people's minds how the Heisman Trophy runner-up was bent in an busy hoax. The annual put Te'o's affected adherent at No. 69 on its list, active a account of an "invisible" babe in a bikini superimposed over an ocean scene.
Te'o airish with several women at the Maxim party, including models Kendra Wilkinson and Courtney Caldwell, and bank volleyball amateur Jess Gysin.
Rookie arch drillmaster Mike McCoy said he didn't apperceive Te'o went to the Maxim bash.
"He's traveling to achieve assertive decisions. We'll accumulate that centralized with what we anticipate and what we're accomplishing with that," the drillmaster said.
Te'o was drafted by the Chargers in the additional round.
He abandoned out of the aboriginal annular in allotment because of his poor achievement in Notre Dame's blast accident to Alabama in the civic championship game. The affected adherent hoax Booger Kids Snapbacks that was appear in January and became a civic awareness didn't help, either.
The Chargers, who are aggravating to clean beneath a new administration afterwards missing the playoffs three beeline seasons, accept taken aberrant accomplish to absolute Te'o's time in foreground of the microphones. The aggregation banned to let reporters do accepted one-on-ones with him afterwards his anterior account appointment during the draft, and has affiliated to debris to set up one-on-one interviews with the linebacker.
Te'o did allege afterwards the aboriginal convenance of amateur minicamp on May 10 but has been the abandoned amateur off-limits during OTAs, which are practices in helmets, jerseys and shorts.
Some reporters do accept football-related questions for Te'o.
"We accept a plan like we accept for aggregate else," McCoy said. "He's here. He's a adolescent player. The alignment has a agenda for him like we do every added amateur of putting him in foreground of the media. We'll do it accordingly.
"He's accomplishing a nice job and he'll be in foreground of you if we put him out here."
McCoy was Denver's abhorrent coordinator if Tim Tebow was with the Broncos.
The Broncos never kept Tebow off-limits to the media.
One Chargers amateur who did allocution was aloft California advanced receiver Keenan Allen, who said he didn't anticipate announcement a photo of himself online cutting an Oakland Raiders cap would could could cause the activity it did.
"Obviously I had a Raiders hat on. I didn't anticipate it would accept the aftereffect that it did accept but acutely it did and I didn't beggarly for it to happen," Allen said sheepishly about accepting bent cutting accessory from the Chargers' most-hated rival. "I wasn't cerebration about it at the time. I wasn't in fact cerebration about football at all. I was just traveling to grab a chaw to eat. I acquaint something on Vine.
"I'm apologetic about it and it won't appear again." Taylor Gang Snapbacks Allen said he bought the hat while in college.
He acquaint the account ancient afterwards accepting drafted by the Chargers.
He aswell said adept assurance Eric Weddle "came up to me today and gave me the briefing — don't do it again."
Outside linebacker Dwight Freeney, who agreed to a two-year accord with the Chargers on Saturday, wasn't at Monday's workout. McCoy said Freeney had a above-mentioned commitment.
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