{"id":89561,"date":"2025-06-08T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/89561\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:41:09","slug":"former-cleveland-browns-rb-nick-chubb-expected-to-sign-with-texans-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/89561\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cleveland Browns RB Nick Chubb expected to sign with Texans: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb, who is a free agent, is expected to sign with the Houston Texans on Monday, according to league sources. It is expected to be a one-year deal and is contingent on Chubb passing a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Chubb received more lucrative offers from other teams, but he would sign a more incentive-laden contract to join Joe Mixon in Houston\u2019s backfield. Chubb, 29, was sidelined for much of the last two seasons due to knee and foot injuries.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Texans are expected to sign RB Nick Chubb to a one-year deal, pending a physical, per sources. <\/p>\n<p>Chubb received more lucrative offers from other teams but could sign a more incentive-laden contract to join Joe Mixon in Houston\u2019s backfield. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M20AU6ZceX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/M20AU6ZceX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMRussini\/status\/1931845830820135076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Houston will be just the second team Chubb has played for in his seven seasons. A second-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft out of Georgia, Chubb has impacted the Browns\u2019 ground game since his rookie season. The four-time Pro Bowler rushed for 996 yards in his first season, followed by four straight seasons of 1,000-plus yards.<\/p>\n<p>Chubb\u2019s 2023 season was cut short by a serious knee injury in Week 2. He returned in Week 7 of the 2024 season, but would wind up missing the final three games that season with a broken foot.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 5.2 yards per carry and 84.5 yards per game in his first five seasons, and 3.9 yards per carry and 50.2 yards per game in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo: Gregory Shamus \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb, who is a free agent, is expected to sign with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,16200,17249,2291,4,1586,1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-89561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland-browns","10":"tag-houston-texans","11":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-draft","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114650394848514377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}