DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Nick Chubb to IR, will return

That's too damn bad ... we are fortunate to have Hunt and Johnson looked really lively too ... but Chubb is special. Glad it sounds like he will be back.

Better news than it could have been.

This could be the perfect scenario. Easier to spread the ball around now and keep everyone else happier. Then Chubb returns late in the season for a playoff run and the playoffs and he has fresh legs.

Taking off rose colored glasses now

wow that is at least 3 weeks but I would rather him be healthy when he returns ... Prayers for a quick healing

Love Chubb and will miss him but Looking forward to seeing Hunt getting a full load of carries

Having Kareem Hunt as a backup is going to come in quite handy. Let’s hope D’Ernest Johnson can continue to perform like he did against Dallas.

I’d say it could be worse news for sure. I was hoping for 2-3 weeks (and it still COULD be), but he’ll be out until the bye IMO

That Hunt contract is looking like a pretty good investment right about now.

It turns out signing a top ten running back to a contract similar to backup running backs is a good idea.

I'm thinking the same thing, we'll miss him for...

5 Oct. 11 Indianapolis Colts
6 Oct. 18 at Pittsburgh Steelers
7 Oct. 25 at Cincinnati Bengals
8 Nov. 1 Las Vegas Raiders

Week 9 is our bye week.

Week 10 Chubb returns?

10 Nov. 15 Houston Texans
11 Nov. 22 Philadelphia Eagles
12 Nov. 29 at Jacksonville Jaguars

Hoping Chubb is 100% healed up when he returns.

Also hoping Hunt heals up himself. He wasn't out there near as much as I would've expected with Chubb sidelined.

Hilliard Sucked yesterday

If Hilliard was the lame option that sucked a year or 2 ago, When Hunt was suspended for half a year,

and combine that with yesterday, then He's got to Go!

And D'Ernest Johnson layed it on the line, yesterday.

You going to tell me

Dontrel Hilliards (silence myself) is going to get touches going forward but Rashard Higgins ain't good enough to?
Get the blank outta here! with that nonsense

Do the right thing!

It's not us that's telling you that. It seems that it's the coaching staff. Thankfully you're at practice every day evaluating the players and seem to know better.

So should we assume its a sprained and not torn MCL?

It’s hard for a RB to carry a team for an entire year. It’s much easier for them to carry a team for a few weeks. So, the hope is Hunt can do a lot of the heavy lifting the next two-three games

j/c:

It could have been worse, but it sucks that Chubb is going to miss that much time.

Good thing that Dorsey brought in Hunt and Berry gave him a new deal. There were folks hoping we would dump him for a ham sandwich.

Well there goes the Chubb running title this year.

But didn't Hunt win one of those?...

Not really.
However, an MCL tear is not like an ACL tear. You can be running and cutting on a partial MCL tear in just a few weeks.... basically, just enough time for it to settle down and have the inflammation go away.

I got a 75% tear in my right MCL about 10 years ago. It was heavily swollen and stiff for a couple of weeks, and felt kinda wonky for a bit, but I was running and in the weight room in short order.

My guess is it is a grade 1 or he'd likely have been done for most/all the season. Often these are minor tears with no long term integrity issues and people can start on exercise immediately within their tolerance levels with a recovery time of 4-6 weeks. I'm guessing he's taking anti inflamatories and RICE with minor exercise. Clearly I'm not there, so I don't know, but grade 2 is about 8-10 weeks and grade 3 is a complete tear and it is 10-12+ weeks.

Good info ~ thanks.

Prayers go out to Chubb. He want's to win and feels it ten times more than us fans do. Lord please heal Chubb and get him back on the path he was on. In Jesus name I pray.

Is this the same knee he blew out in college? I don't want him to hurry back if that means he's risking further, more catastrophic injury.

Relatively good news considering what it could be. Any word on the other guys "inured" yesterday such as Larry O?

It's NOT. I checked last night and meant to post but was waiting for the diagnosis.

College injury was definitely his left knee, this was his right.

J/c

The good news is it SEEMS to be a grade 1 sprain, maybe 2. There’s very little tearing. I’d assume he’s gonna want to be back soon, so he’ll make it happen right after the bye

heal quickly nick!

You can’t replace a guy like Chubb, but we have Hunt, and D’Ernest to tote the football. Stay healthy Kareem, we need you.

If our OL can stay healthy we will keep on bulldozin’.

Good news about Chubb. Glad to hear it.

Hats off to you for working through that injury! Is it still OK? Just wondering about how susceptible he might be later in this season. Hopeful that he will get some help from bye resting. I am convinced he works out in his sleep.

Be healed, Mister Chubb!

I never had a repair done and it's perfectly fine. I've done triathlons (Sprints through Full Iron-distance), marathons, 50k's, Olympic lifting, Crossfit, Warrior Dashes, etc.. all on that knee and never even one issue. Granted, all of that is a bit different than the type of hard cutting he will be asking of it, but I have zero doubts that I would be able to do that stuff on my knee and his knees are WAY stronger than mine have ever been. I'm convinced that he won't have a problem at all - once he learns to trust it and go.

And he's already conquered that demon after a horrific knee injury that many considered to be a possible career-ender.

Chubb will probably miss 4 games since the 5th game week is our bye, and he will return after the bye, that's not bad, in the meantime we still have Hunt who has led the NFL in Rushing and is and all pro, Johnson looks really good also, and this OL will still open the holes it did when Chubb was here. Also we play Indy, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and LV, if we can win 2 maybe even 3 0f those games we will be 5-3, 6-2 and sitting great heading into the 2nd half of the season, when Chubb returns ... GO BROWNS

I think Hunt would greatly benefit from a reduced workload for a few weeks to heal up.

me too Hunt is better in space and Chubb is better inside runner

I think Hunt would be similar inside if he had a healthy Teller in front of him. Hubbard has been holding up well for a backup, but he's not getting the movement Teller had been. Chubb does have better long speed, but if I only need a yard inside, I might go Hunt.

It will be nice if we get them both back healthy again.