DJ Bien-AimeJun 8, 2025, 07:54 PM ET
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HOUSTON -- Four-time Pro Bowl moving backmost Nick Chubb is expected to motion a one-year woody with the Houston Texans connected Monday, sources told ESPN.
The signing is contingent connected Chubb passing a physical.
The erstwhile Cleveland Browns moving backmost would articulation a Texans rushing onslaught led by two-time Pro Bowler Joe Mixon, Dameon Pierce, Dare Ogunbowale, and fourth-round prime Woody Marks retired of USC.
Chubb, a 2018 second-round prime retired of Georgia, ranks 3rd connected the Browns' vocation rushing database (6,843) aft spending the archetypal 7 years of his vocation successful Cleveland.
Injuries derailed Chubb's Browns tenure, arsenic helium suffered a terrible genu wounded successful Week 2 of the 2023 play against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That forced him to miss the archetypal six games of the 2024 season, earlier helium returned successful Week 7 and scored a touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals.
But Chubb failed to regain his Pro Bowl signifier earlier his play ended prematurely owed to a breached ft successful Week 15.
In 8 games, helium ran for 332 yards and recorded career-lows successful yards per effort (3.3) and percent of carries that gained astatine slightest 10 yards (4.9%).
Houston hopes Chubb tin recapture his pre-injury signifier and signifier a one-two combo with Mixon, who totaled 1,016 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns en way to earning a Pro Bowl motion successful 2024.
Chubb's expected signing successful Houston was archetypal reported by NFL Network.