{"id":118867,"date":"2026-08-22T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118867\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:59:08","slug":"former-browns-all-pro-running-back-nick-chubb-announces-retirement-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118867\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Browns All-Pro running back Nick Chubb announces retirement from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former All-Pro running back Nick Chubb announced his retirement from the NFL on Friday after eight seasons in the league. The one-time All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowler posted his retirement message on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcUtVYNkT1p\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwelve-year-old me could never imagine this day, and 30-year-old me is wondering where all the time has gone,\u201d Chubb wrote. \u201cI\u2019ve known for some time now, but I\u2019m finally ready to share that I\u2019m done playing football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to end my career on a healthy note, along with a winning season, and I was able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chubb played on a one-year deal with the Houston Texans last season, starting nine of 15 games and logging 506 rushing yards and three touchdowns while splitting carries with Woody Marks. The Texans went 12-5 and made the divisional round of the AFC playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Chubb finished his career with 7,349 rushing yards and 54 rushing touchdowns over eight seasons.\u00a0He totaled the fifth-most rushing yards in the NFL since entering the league in 2018, and\u00a0retired as third on the Browns\u2019 career rushing list (6,843).<\/p>\n<p>The Cedartown, Ga., native was one of the nation\u2019s premier running backs while playing for the\u00a0Georgia Bulldogs from 2014-17.\u00a0He ran for 1,547 yards and 14 touchdowns as a freshman, winning SEC Freshman of the Year in 2014. By the time he entered the draft in 2018, he was a two-time All-SEC team selection.<\/p>\n<p>Chubb was selected with the 35th pick by the Browns in the 2018 draft. He made an immediate impact, rushing for 996 yards and eight touchdowns as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>He made the Pro Bowl each of the next four seasons (2019-22) as one of the NFL\u2019s top rushers. Over that span, he averaged 1,336 yards and 10 touchdowns per season and was named second-team All-Pro in 2022. His 2022 (1,525 rushing yards) and 2019 seasons (1,494) rank fourth and fifth, respectively, on the Browns\u2019 single-season rushing list behind three Jim Brown seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns had one winning season in that span \u2014 11-5 in 2020 \u2014 when they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>In his retirement message, Chubb listed goals he had set for himself in his football career, including winning the Heisman, being an All-American and winning a national championship. In the NFL, he wanted to lead the league in rushing, win MVP and win a Super Bowl \u201cfor the city of Cleveland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t able to accomplish any of those things,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd what\u2019s most frustrating, but also gives me peace, is that I know for a fact I gave it my all. I know I put myself in the right position to achieve all of those things. But it just didn\u2019t happen for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While at Georgia in 2015, Chubb suffered a severe dislocation and multiligament tear in the same left knee that caused him to miss most of his sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 18, 2023, Week 2 of the 2023 NFL season, Chubb took a brutal hit against the Pittsburgh Steelers and tore his left MCL, meniscus and medial capsule. He later underwent two surgeries, as his ACL needed repairing as well. He returned in Week 7 of the following season on Oct. 20, 2024, scoring against the Cincinnati Bengals in his first game in 398 days.<\/p>\n<p>In Week 15 of that same season, Chubb suffered a broken foot against the Chiefs. He missed the team\u2019s last three games, became an unrestricted free agent after the season, and signed with Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDealing with injuries was something else that wasn\u2019t part of the plan,\u201d Chubb wrote. \u201cThe only thing I could control after hurting my knee twice was getting back up, getting back to work, and getting back on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chubb closed his farewell message by thanking his teammates, coaches, fans, and family, and gave homage to the team he spent most of his career with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTill the day that I die, it will always be: GO DAWGS,\u201d Chubb wrote. \u201cGO BROWNS!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All-Pro running back Nick Chubb announced his retirement from the NFL on Friday after eight seasons in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[131],"tags":[240,8056,3477,90],"class_list":["post-118867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chubb","tag-chubb","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117137163061142417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}