Report: Chargers are moving to Los Angeles

NEW YORK — The deadline for the San Diego Chargers to exercise their option to relocate to Los Angeles has been extended for two days, although a media report surfaced Wednesday night that the team plans to move.

The Chargers have called a staff meeting this morning, a team employee said Wednesday night. The employee spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. The employee said the topic of the meeting hadn’t been divulged.

Team chairman Dean Spanos didn’t immediately return a message left at his home.

Citing league sources, ESPN. com reported that the Chargers plan to announce that they are moving to Los Angeles. According to the report, the Chargers have notified NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and the owners of other teams, of their intent to move to Los Angeles for the 2017 season.

The original deadline was Jan. 15. Because that is a Sunday and Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday, the NFL moved back the deadline until Tuesday. The league initiated the move.

San Diego would become a tenant in the stadium being built in Inglewood for the Rams if the Chargers exercise that option. If not, the Oakland Raiders would have the option to join the Rams in the LA area, though Raiders owner

Mark Davis has indicated his intention to seek a move to Las Vegas.

COWBOYS: Rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott was involved in a minor fender bender early Wednesday near the Cowboys’ practice facility, but took the field with his teammates a couple hours later.

“I’m fine. I’m healthy. I’m good,” Elliott said. “It’s like nothing happened. My car is messed up, that’s about it.”

Elliott had no interest in discussing his accident in detail, instead focusing on football and the Green Bay Packers coming to town for a divisional round matchup on Sunday afternoon.

MASON ARREST: In Lake Worth, Fla., former Los Angeles Rams player Tre Mason was arrested on charges that he fled a deputy on an ATV in July.

BILLS: Buffalo has hired Carolina Panthers’ defensive coordinator Sean McDermott as its head coach, replacing fired Rex Ryan.