Nick Chubb is easily the biggest fan favorite of Cleveland Browns fans over the past couple of decades. The fanbase has not cheered harder for any one player and it showed by the devastation of when he went down with a significant knee injury last September.
Flash forward over a year and Chubb is nearly ready to return to the field. He is returning to a team that badly needs some sort of identity on offense, perhaps he can help that quest.
When Chubb returns to the field of play, in front of him he has quite the accomplishment that is still possible. Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry recently eclipsed 10,000 rushing yards for his career. Chubb has a chance to be the 33rd player to do it if he can come back strong for multiple years.
Currently, Chubb has rushed for 6,511 rushing yards. He has five seasons and two games extra played in the NFL and two major knee injuries in his entire football career. If Chubb could return in the next couple of weeks and rush for 500-600 yards this year, it would be a step in the direction of reaching that crazy feat of 10k yards.
Chubb, 28, would then need to go on and basically find 3,000 yards in the rest of his NFL career. If he can return to form this season, he is a 1,000-yard rusher going forward. Due to be a free agent after the season, Cleveland would undoubtedly bring him back for the future to lead their rushing attack if he is still just as good.
It is unfair to say that Chubb is going to reach 10,000 yards, but it is certainly still possible even with the 20+ games he has missed recently due to injury. Chubb has run for over 1,250 yards three times and cleared 1,400 yards twice.
You can bank on Chubb really testing the 10k rushing yards threshold, but it is all going to be dependent on how he comes back this season. He has a real chance.
