Browns RB Nick Chubb more likely to stay on PUP listing

Syndication: Akron Beacon JournalCleveland Browns operating again Nick Chubb takes within the crowd earlier than an NFL preseason soccer recreation at Cleveland Browns Stadium, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Browns operating again Nick Chubb is predicted to start the common season on the bodily unable to carry out listing, ESPN reported Monday.

The transfer was anticipated and would bump Chubb’s earliest doable 2024 regular-season debut to October.

Chubb, 28, had surgical procedure final September for a torn left MCL and meniscus, adopted by surgical procedure to restore his torn left ACL in November. He sustained the damage in Week 2 final season towards the Pittsburgh Steelers.

He had main surgical procedure on the identical knee in 2015 whereas enjoying at Georgia.

Jerome Ford is prepping to once more fill the No. 1 RB position. Chubb didn’t play within the preseason and spent coaching camp on the PUP listing as effectively.

Gamers who start the common season on the PUP listing are required to sit down out a minimal of 4 video games.

Chubb made 4 consecutive Professional Bowl groups (2019-22) and rushed for greater than 1,000 yards in every of these seasons, together with 1,525 in 2022.

Since being chosen by the Browns with the thirty fifth general choose of the 2018 NFL Draft, Chubb has run for six,511 yards and 48 touchdowns in 77 video games.

–Area Degree Media