Chargers cornerback Benjamin St-Juste wasted no time getting to work since joining the Bolts.

And since arriving in Los Angeles, it's been everything he imagined.

"Weather is beautiful, facility is beautiful," St-Juste said last week during his media availability last week. "Everybody on the team staff is very welcoming so it was a pretty easy transition honestly.

"We got right into work, and I've been having fun here so far," St-Juste added.

The 27-year-old cornerback, who signed with the Chargers on March 12, has enjoyed his first couple of weeks with the team, as he figures to compete in a secondary that was a key part of last season's defensive success.

While the connections with those on the team are few, the biggest one starts with Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh, who he is no stranger to.

Harbaugh recruited St-Juste out of high school, as the cornerback played for Harbaugh's Michigan squad from 2017 to 2018.

Now many years later the head coach had a hand in recruiting him once more, this time in free agency to the Chargers.

"So much has changed since I've been at Michigan and him coming to the league and everything," St-Juste said. "It was good to reunite because that's still the coach that gave me the first scholarship when I was 17, 16 years old that kind of started my career. It's good to have a full circle moment."

From Ann Arbor to the NFL, St-Juste said the Head Coach is still the same competitor.

"He's still the same old guy. He's still the same guy, straight to the point," St-Juste said. "Funny guy, but he's going to compete.

"He's a competitor, he knows how to win and he knows how to pinpoint competitors," he added. "I think that's why he came back and recruited me in this free agency because he knows what type of player I am."

Harbaugh connection aside, St-Juste's arrival to the Bolts was an opportunity the cornerback saw as a fresh start — and it started with the defensive coaching staff in Los Angeles.

St-Juste missed both Defensive Coordinator Jesse Minter and defensive backs coach Steve Clinkscale during his collegiate days but heard nothing but great things about the two coaches from former players who played under them at Michigan.

It's a big reason as to why he said he chose to join the Chargers, as they presented the best plan to use his strengths and have a track record of success getting the most out of players.

"Very smart man, smart coach and from the small amount of meetings that we had, it looks like he's able to cater defenses and plays to the strengths of the players that he has," St-Juste said about Minter. "From Derwin [James, Jr.] to Elijah [Molden], to Cam [Hart] and Tarheeb [Still], he puts players in the right position for them to just go excel instead of just plugging them and leaving them there."

The 6-foot-3 cornerback has plenty of size and traits that Minter and his staff will have a chance to work with, as he's shown some versatility during his time in the league.

Although he played primarily outside last season in Washington, he has a lot of experience in the slot and had success there.

St-Juste will be the first to say he was not satisfied with the way he played last season, which is why this offseason his goal was to find out what were the missteps.

"I feel like I was making some good strides over the years. Last year was tough," St-Juste said. "The reason why? I don't know, I guess that's just how it is as a professional athlete, you got some ups and downs.

"My goal for this offseason was to pinpoint what went right, what went wrong and make sure that those mistakes don't get recreated here," St-Juste added. "That's why I'm very optimistic for this season."

St-Juste pointed to last season's ups and downs as a learning experience, as he had a chance to reflect on the season he had and identified what went wrong.

The cornerback said with a new coaching staff change in Washington last season, his struggles came from things like trying too hard to try to impress, leading to some overthinking when he was on the field and uncharacteristic plays.

St-Juste said he needed to go back to who he was this offseason and rely on what got him to this point, which is a mindset he now brings to the 2025 Chargers.

"I got recruited here by the staff because they know what type of player I am, they know I'm a competitor, they know the skills I bring," St-Juste said. "That's what I'm going to do, I'm going to bring that and not trying to change the way I am to fit and try to fit something I'm not, because they already know who I am, they know what I bring.

"So just bring that, bring your toolbox, bring who you are as a person, bring your competitive mindset and that's what I'm going to do," St-Juste added.

Whatever role ends up being the one St-Juste takes on, the cornerback comes in motivated to not repeat what happened last season — and he believes this is the place to do it.

"I wouldn't say prove, but I would say something to show," St-Juste said. "Like show my full potential. I feel like I show glimpses and all that stuff.

"Throughout this offseason I've had time to do a retrospect and looked at what I wanted to improve, what I wanted to take out my game to bring me to that full potential," St-Juste added. "No better way to do than with a new team that's on the rise, ascending, just made the playoffs and got a great culture and great coaches."

He later added: "There's no 'I' here, there's no individual… You can see that those are the teams, where you put the team first, there's no selfishness, there's no individual than the program, those are the teams that win. I think this team has that from what I've seen."