Former Charger Darren Sproles selling home

Former Chargers running back Darren Sproles has listed his Santaluz estate for $2.78 million.

Sproles, who played for San Diego from 2005 to 2010, bought the 5,957 square-foot home in 2012 for $2.5 million. The property, listed Friday, has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, a game room, pool, outdoor kitchen and courtyard with a fireplace.

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Sproles now plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, but he keeps his permanent home in San Diego. Listing agent Daniel Beer, who co-represented LaDainian Tomlinson for the recent sale of his Poway home, said Sproles and his wife Michel figured the regular season would be a good time to try to sell the 1.56 acre property.

"It’s their primary residence," he said. "Their main concern is just to get something out of it and move on to the next thing and just make sure that they're able to get to where they want to be."

When he played for the Chargers, Sproles lived in a 5,600-square-foot home in the StoneBridge community of Scripps Ranch. He bought the property the property in Santaluz while he played for the New Orleans Saints.

Earlier this year, the Saints traded Sproles to the Eagles. Soon after, Sproles listed his Metairie, La., home for $650,000, which he bought for $595,000 in September 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Michelle Silverman, a La Jolla based Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway, said Santaluz was hit hard during the Great Recession, with most of the bargains starting in 2012, when Sproles bought the home. She said Sproles' property is priced within the ballpark of recent listings in the gated community.

"With the market being flat, and especially with what has recently sold, there has not been that many closings," she said. "Homes that are over $3 million that sold have 7,000 square feet."

In the first half of 2014, 1,876 homes sold for more than $1 million in San Diego County, up 12.7 percent from the same period in 2013, CoreLogic DataQuick reports.

Sproles, 31, was drafted by the Chargers in 2005 and is a member of San Diego's 50th anniversary all-time team.