Nick Chubb signs 1-year deal with Texans as former Browns star looks to revamp career: report

Nick Chubb has a caller location successful the NFL. 

The erstwhile Cleveland Browns prima has signed a one-year woody with the Houston Texans, worthy up to $5 million, per NFL Network. 

The woody has a reported basal wage of $2.5 million. 

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Nick Chubb, #24 of the Cleveland Browns, speaks during a property league aft the Cleveland Browns mandatory seasoned minicamp astatine CrossCountry Mortgage Campus connected June 7, 2023 successful Berea, Ohio. (Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images)

Chubb was expected to motion with Houston, but the woody was pending a Monday physical, which intelligibly went well. 

The Browns and Chubb were having discussions astir a imaginable reunion earlier the 2025 NFL Draft, but NFL Network reported that some sides were incapable to find communal crushed connected a deal. 

In turn, Chubb was looking for his adjacent accidental elsewhere, and helium got it with 1 of the champion offenses successful the NFL. 

He volition beryllium teaming up with Joe Mixon, the do-it-all moving backmost who had 1,325 scrimmage yards and 1,016 yards rushing with 12 full touchdowns implicit 14 games successful his archetypal play with Houston. He earned himself a travel to the Pro Bowl arsenic a result. 

NFL teams person liked the dual moving backmost threat, particularly with David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs wreaking havoc connected the Detroit Lions. As a result, teams person invested successful duos that could bash the aforesaid for their ain offense, and caput manager DeMeco Ryans is surely going to similar his backfield if they tin enactment healthy. 

Nick Chubb, #24 of the Cleveland Browns, runs a drill during the Cleveland Browns mandatory seasoned minicamp astatine CrossCountry Mortgage Campus connected June 7, 2023 successful Berea, Ohio. (Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images)

Chubb was erstwhile an elite NFL moving back, breaking retired successful his 2nd play with the Browns for 1,494 yards connected the crushed for his archetypal Pro Bowl nod. He had go the workhorse moving backmost Cleveland hoped helium would beryllium arsenic a second-round prime successful 2018 retired of Georgia, earning himself 4 consecutive Pro Bowls from 2019-22. 

However, Chubb’s vocation would beryllium derailed a spot by a gruesome genu wounded during "Monday Night Football" connected the roadworthy successful Week 2 of the 2023 season. Facing the Pittsburgh Steelers, Chubb suffered a brutal deed wherever his genu intelligibly went successful the incorrect direction. He was forced retired for the remainder of the season. 

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Chubb had a agelong recovery, which led to him missing the archetypal six games of the Browns’ 2204 campaign. He would get backmost retired connected an NFL tract successful Week 7, and helium rushed for 332 yards connected 102 attempts successful 8 games. 

It was not the benignant of accumulation the Browns were utilized to from Chubb, which is wherefore they were hesitant to bring him back. When the NFL Draft came along, they took Ohio State’s Quinshon Judkins and Tennessee’s Dylan Sampson to adhd to their extent illustration that already had Jerome Ford and Pierre Strong Jr. 

Nick Chubb, #24 of the Cleveland Browns, runs with the shot during the 4th fourth against the Atlanta Falcons astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium connected Oct. 2, 2022 successful Atlanta. (Todd Kirkland/Getty Images)

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Thus, Chubb’s clip with the Browns came to an end. 

Perhaps Chubb tin summon his aged aforesaid successful a Texans azygous this play with a squad primed for different playoff run.  

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