Chargers receiver Kassim Osgood, who hopes to actually be more of a receiver and less of a special teamer, stayed away from the first session of the team’s voluntary offseason workouts, as he said he would.

Osgood has said that he wouldn’t spend time running routes during offseason workouts if the team didn’t plan to let him play receiver when the season starts.

And on the same day that the Bengals cut linebacker Odell Thurman allegedly for skipping voluntary drills last week, where’s the harm in an otherwise forbidden suggestion from Chargers coach Norv Turner that the workouts are anything but voluntary?  “When everyone is here there is something special with that,” Turner said.  “Everyone talks about the talent of this team.  The strength of this team is the feelings they have for each other and all they’ve been through the last five years.  Kassim is not going to lose that.  But building that is what he’s missing.”