HOUSTON — 4-time Professional Bowl working again Nick Chubb is predicted to signal a one-year cope with the Houston Texans on Monday, sources instructed ESPN.
The signing is contingent on Chubb passing a bodily.
The previous Cleveland Browns working again would be a part of a Texans speeding assault led by two-time Professional Bowler Joe Mixon, Dameon Pierce, Dare Ogunbowale, and fourth-round choose Woody Marks out of USC.
Chubb, a 2018 second-round pick of Georgia, ranks third on the Browns’ profession speeding checklist (6,843) after spending the primary seven years of his profession in Cleveland.
Accidents derailed Chubb’s Browns tenure, as he suffered a extreme knee harm in Week 2 of the 2023 season in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers. That compelled him to overlook the primary six video games of the 2024 season, earlier than he returned in Week 7 and scored a landing in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals.
However Chubb did not regain his Professional Bowl kind earlier than his season ended prematurely as a result of a damaged foot in Week 15.
In eight video games, he ran for 332 yards and recorded career-lows in yards per try (3.3) and proportion of carries that gained at the very least 10 yards (4.9%).
Houston hopes Chubb can recapture his pre-injury kind and kind a one-two combo with Mixon, who totaled 1,016 speeding yards and 11 touchdowns en path to incomes a Professional Bowl nod in 2024.
Chubb’s anticipated signing in Houston was first reported by NFL Community.