Report: Chargers, Rivers will shelve talks if extension isn't agreed to by Aug. 13

The San Diego Chargers have 10 days to sign quarterback Philip Rivers to a contract extension.

Talks will reportedly be shelved until 2016 if a deal isn't agreed to by Aug. 13, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune's Michael Gehlken.

The Chargers will host the Cowboys on Aug. 13. If the quarterback and team have not agreed to an extension by then, they aren't expected to this year, sources said Sunday. Negotiations between the two sides are considered amicable. There is thought to be a general understanding that talks will be revisited in 2016 if no deal is completed soon.

The parties have been talking since the NFL Draft, Gehlken writes, and Rivers doesn't seem affected by the talks at training camp. The 33-year-old will earn $15.8 million this season, the final year of his current contract.

The Chargers can slap a franchise tag on Rivers next March, if there's no extension in place by then.

Rivers threw for 4,286 yards and 31 touchdowns in 2014, completing 66.5 percent of his passes, and playing in all of the Chargers' 16 games. He was intercepted 18 times, the most picks he's thrown since 2011 (20).