Browns RB Nick Chubb receives encouraging news about knee injury

After struggling a ugly season-ending knee damage on “Monday Evening Soccer earlier this week,” Cleveland Browns operating again Nick Chubb acquired some optimistic information on Saturday concerning his future. 

In line with Adam Schefter of ESPN, Chubb’s damage would not seem career-threatening and exams confirmed the injury is not as extreme as beforehand thought, revealing solely a torn left MCL. 

“Sources mentioned that whereas Chubb’s ACL was stretched on the play, medical doctors don’t imagine that ligament is torn,” Schefter wrote. “Surgical procedure is prone to occur this week, and sources mentioned the hope is that extra injury will not be discovered.” 

The latest replace on Chubb’s standing places his rehab at 6-to-8 months, giving him a very good probability at being able to return by the beginning of the 2024 marketing campaign. Contemplating the doom and gloom surrounding Chubb all through the week, Saturday’s information is one of the best he and the Browns might have hoped for. 

Chubb suffered the damage on an unfortunate-but-legal hit to the knee from Pittsburgh Steelers security Minkah Fitzpatrick. It was a blow so stomach-churning that ESPN chose not to show replays “out of respect to the viewers and Nick Chubb.” 

With out their No. 1 again and arguably their finest offensive producer, the Browns reunited with former operating again Kareem Hunt, signing him on Wednesday. Hunt will possible cut up carries with second-year again Jerome Ford. Filling in after Chubb went down, Ford took full benefit of his alternative, speeding for 106 yards (16 carries) whereas including three catches for 25 yards and a landing within the Browns’ 26-22 loss to the Steelers. 

How the Browns will honest with out Chubb stays to be seen. Nevertheless, regardless of the optimistic information on their star, the team will have to lean on a former fifth-round draft choose and a operating again they signed off the road.