Former Browns and Texans RB Nick Chubb announced via Instagram that he’s retiring from the NFL on Friday.
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Chubb quickly established himself as one of the best running backs in the league early on in his career. However, a devastatingly gruesome knee injury in the second game of the 2023 season altered his career forever. Chubb tore his left MCL and also damaged his meniscus and medial capsule in a horrifying hit.
Across his first six seasons, Chubb’s worst yards per carry average was 5.0. But in 2024, that dropped to 3.3, as his burst and explosiveness were clearly sapped by the knee injury he’d suffered the year prior.
Chubb landed with the Texans last year and while he wasn’t back to his former self, he was reasonably effective, rushing for 506 yards at 4.1 yards per attempt.
Chubb, 30, was drafted by the Browns in the second round out of Georgia in 2018. He was entering the final year of a four-year, $7,383,094 contract when Cleveland signed him to a three-year, $36 million extension back in 2021.
The Browns restructured Chubb’s contract last April, lowering his cap hit in 2024 from $15.85 million to $6.275 million. He played out the rest of that deal and was testing the open market for the first time in his career in 2025 when he signed a one-year deal with the Texans.
In 2025, Chubb appeared in 15 games for the Texans and rushed for 506 yards on 122 carries (4.1 YPC) to go along with three touchdowns.
We had him included in our Top 100 Available 2026 Free Agents list.
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