SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Just one win. That's all the San Diego Chargers are looking for.

The NFL schedule-makers might be giving San Diego a break. Losers of six straight, the Chargers (4-7) play host to the expansion Cleveland Browns (2-10) on Sunday, perhaps the last game this year in which San Diego will be favored.

Lose this one and the Chargers might be looking at finishing the season with an 11-game losing streak, epic even by their recent standards of failure. They lost their last eight games of 1997 to finish 4-12, and lost their final five last year in going 5-11.

After facing the Browns, the Chargers visit Seattle and Miami; play host to Oakland, which buried San Diego 28-9 on Nov. 14; then finish at Denver.

Eleven straight losses would tie the club record set in 1975.

The Chargers have lost almost every conceivable way during their streak. They had six turnovers in a blowout loss to Green Bay, none in the defeat at Oakland. They lost to Chris Miller and Jim Miller.

They lost in overtime to the Chicago Bears, after Jeff Graham couldn't hang on to Jim Harbaugh's pass in the end zone in the closing seconds of regulation. They lost in regulation to the Minnesota Vikings last week even though Harbaugh threw for a career-best 404 yards, the first time anyone other than Dan Fouts cracked 400 in a Chargers uniform.

Needing a touchdown and two-point conversion to tie, the Chargers reached the Minnesota 17 with plenty of time left when an interception killed them.

"There's a big urgency to get a win, more so than if you'd won six in a row," Harbaugh said. "You want to remember how that feels. I do, anyway. It's been a month and a half. Guys are working hard. You'd like to have a reward there on Sundays."

Both of Cleveland's wins, by the way, have come on the road.

Chargers rookie coach Mike Riley keeps talking about the steps the offense has taken, but he's still waiting for a win, too.

"It's very frustrating to talk about the silver linings," Riley said. "What might that win at the end against the Bears have done, making that play; making the play in the end zone against the Vikings and going for two? What might that have done to our team at this point?

"But it didn't happen. So where do you go? We're playing better football than we were three weeks ago, and that's a positive thing."

The Chargers have run the no-huddle offense with success the last two weeks, and Harbaugh has been scrambling around.

"They're a team that likes to spread you out offensively and throw some intermediate and short stuff, and then all of a sudden they throw the ball down the field and they have quite a few plays of 40 yards or more," Browns coach Chris Palmer said.

The Chargers get back All-Pro safety Rodney Harrison after missing six weeks with a shoulder injury, but might be without All-Pro linebacker Junior Seau. Seau, who has a strained stomach muscle and a rib injury, didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday. Harrison said he thought Seau would miss the game.

"We were a play or two away last week from beating the Minnesota Vikings, probably one of the best offenses in the NFL, so I definitely think we have the ability to go out here and be very competitive the next five weeks and win some games," Harrison said.

The big buzz with the Browns this week was whether offensive lineman Scott Rehberg was dogging it when he missed last week's 33-21 loss to Tennessee. Rehberg said he was sick; some teammates said he should have played.

"I just think some things need to be proven to us," said left tackle Lomas Brown, who will miss the game with a sprained knee and be replaced by Rehberg. "And I think the best way to do it is to go out to San Diego and have a good game against Raylee Johnson. He's a good player and a good pass rusher, and Rehberg has the perfect opportunity to play real well against him and quiet some of the critics."

Coincidentally, just as the Chargers are starting to get over Ryan Leaf's recent suspension, the Browns' family is fracturing for first time with the Rehberg issue.

"Division within the family is always going to be a positive for the opponent, and until people realize that, they need to just point the fingers at themselves and keep their mouth shut until they go out and perform," Seau said.

Leaf, suspended for four weeks for insubordination, will be San Diego's No. 3 quarterback.

Cleveland wide receiver Leslie Shepherd is expected to be back in the lineup after missing the last 2 games with a strained calf.

CLEVELAND Season schedule and results

SAN DIEGO Season schedule and results

September 12 Pittsburgh L 0-43 September 19 @Tennessee L 9-26 September 26 @Baltimore L 10-17 October 3 New England L 7-19 October 10 Cincinnati L 17-18 October 17 @Jacksonville L 7-24 October 24 @St. Louis L 3-34 October 31 @New Orleans W 21-16 November 7 Baltimore L 9-41 November 14 @Pittsburgh W 16-15 November 21 Carolina L 17-31 November 28 Tennessee L 21-33 December 5 @San Diego 4:15pm ET December 12 @Cincinnati 1:00pm ET December 19 Jacksonville 1:00pm ET December 26 Indianapolis 1:00pm ET

September 19 @Cincinnati W 34-7 September 26 Indianapolis L 19-27 October 3 Kansas City W 21-14 October 10 @Detroit W 20-10 October 17 Seattle W 13-10 October 24 Green Bay L 3-31 October 31 @Kansas City L 0-34 November 7 Denver L 17-33 November 14 @Oakland L 9-28 November 21 Chicago L 20-23 November 28 @Minnesota L 27-35 December 5 Cleveland 4:15pm ET December 12 @Seattle 4:05pm ET December 19 @Miami 1:00pm ET December 26 Oakland 4:05pm ET January 2 @Denver 4:15pm ET

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