{"id":119041,"date":"2026-08-22T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/119041\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:18:13","slug":"nick-chubb-four-time-pro-bowl-rb-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/119041\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Chubb, four-time Pro Bowl RB, announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-time Pro Bowl running back Nick Chubb<\/a> called it a career Friday night, announcing his retirement from professional football after eight seasons on Instagram. The 30-year-old began his career with the Cleveland Browns<\/a> after being drafted 35th overall in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft<\/a> out of Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chubb reeled off four consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons from 2019 to 2022, which earned him four consecutive Pro Bowl selections. His best year came in 2022 with a career-high 1,525 yards rushing to go along with a career-high 12 rushing touchdowns. That production earned him second-team All-Pro honors. The 2023 season is when injuries began to rob him of his prime years. He tore both his MCL, meniscus and ACL in 2023 after a gruesome knee injury against the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> in Week 2 that year. \u00a0Chubb returned to action in Week 7 of the 2024 season before suffering another season-ending injury in Week 15 that year against the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>, this time a foot fracture. He was a shell of himself in 2025 with the Houston Texans<\/a> after the second, significant lower body injury as he rushed for just 506 yards and 3 touchdowns on 122 carries. That’s why he called it quits while remaining a free agent two weeks into the 2026 preseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Today’s the day I’ve been avoiding for a while,” Chubb wrote. “Twelve-year-old me could never imagine this day, and 30-year-old me is wondering where all the time has gone. I’ve known for some time now, but I’m finally ready to share that I’m done playing football. I wanted to end my career on a healthy note, along with a winning season, and I was able to do that. At the beginning of this journey, I made many promises to myself. The No. 1 promise I made was that I would always stay true to who I am and forget the things that made me, me. That promise meant always being the hardest-working person, not whether where I was or what the circumstances were.”<\/p>\n

Chubb’s peak of his first five seasons from 2018 to 2022 stands almost without equal in NFL<\/a> history after he registered 6,341 yards rushing on a 5.2 yards per carry average. He and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown are the only players in league history with 6,000-plus rushing yards and 5-plus yards per carry in their first five seasons, per CBS Sports Research. Chubb’s sixth season in 2023 is when his career-altering knee injury occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In the NFL, I wanted to lead the league in rushing, win MVP and win a Super Bowl<\/a> for the city of Cleveland,” Chubb said. “I wasn’t able to accomplish any of those things. … What’s most frustrating but also gives me peace is that I know for a fact I gave it my all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time Pro Bowl running back Nick Chubb called it a career Friday night, announcing his retirement from professional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[131],"tags":[44676,240,8056,3477,7555,90,3478,4374,58096,174,37370],"class_list":["post-119041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chubb","tag-browns","tag-chubb","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-houston-texans","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-nick-chubb","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-pro-bowl","tag-retirement","tag-running-back"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117138889454394478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119041","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=119041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}