CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Browns heeded Kareem Hunt’s requests to “please pay this man,” in what his good friend and pal Nick Chubb meant.
They agreed with Chubb, 25, on a three-year contract extension worth $ 36.6 million, including $ 30 million total guarantees, cleveland.com has confirmed. The deal is $ 20 million that is fully guaranteed. Josina Anderson first reported it was tight, and sources told cleveland.com that they are following it for about three days.
Chubb posted in his typical subtle way “Let’s Go Cleveland” on his Instagram account, without one of the many exclamation marks his teammates used to congratulate him.
The renewal will keep Chubb in Cleveland until 2024, when he turns 29 in December. The new money average of $ 12.2 million ranks sixth in the NFL. The top five highest paid running backs in the NFL are Christian McCaffery ($ 16,015,875), Ezekiel Elliot ($ 15 million), Alvin Kamara ($ 15 million), Dalvin Cook ($ 12.6 million) ) and Derrick Henry ($ 12.5 million).
“Please pay this man,” said Hunt last month during his youth soccer camp at his alma mater Willoughby South High School. “He’s a nature freak. And he’s a brother to me and I love what he does on and off the field. Just a great person and teammate. “
The Browns think the same of Chubb, their No. 35 Georgia second round pick of 2018 and a two-time pro bowler.
“I think you all know the affinity we have for him both as a player and as a person,” Brown’s GM Andrew Berry said in March.
“He’s the ultimate team player,” said coach Kevin Stefanski last season.
Chubb’s close friend and 2018 classmate, Baker Mayfield, tweeted “NICHOLAS JAMAL CHUBB !!!!” and Myles Garrett tweeted “CHUBB !!! Let’s go.”
Brown’s guard Joel Bitonio sang Chubbs praises on Friday.
“He’s just a special guy, man. Like great teammates in my eight years here, Nick Chubb is one of them, ”said Bitonio. “He just does everything right away from the field, on the field you never hear him complain or really never hear him.”
“[It’s] His uncanny ability not to be attacked. It’s broken tackles, stiff arm, juke, finishing, speed, he just does everything. and you really know what you’re going to get because there are times it can run over or run over someone. There are other times when he just walks along the sidelines. ”
Chubb is the first of four major expansions the Browns have worked on, including those for Baker Mayfield, Denzel Ward, and Wyatt Teller. Mayfield and Ward have received their fifth year options for 2022, and Teller is entering the final year of his deal.
“I think along with you [Chubb] and Kareem, the more runs we get called, the more chance we have of leaning on the defense, so there will be a greater chance of cracking those. I know a lot of those yards came from big runs to finish the game. He’s just a special guy, man.
“There is something special about blocking for this guy and Kareem. It’s going to be tough, but let’s get back to 10 yards per carry in the fourth quarter this year and we’ll be in a good position. ”
Heading into the final year of his rookie deal, Chubb made it clear last month that he doesn’t want to leave Cleveland, which has become his second hometown.
“I don’t like uncertainty and I know what I have with the players and coaches here in Cleveland,” he said during the minicamp. “This is the city of Cleveland, and I don’t know how things will be anywhere else. So Cleveland is where I want to be, and that’s my main focus – being here in Cleveland. “
Chubb, who scored 1,067 yards and 12 touchdowns in 12 games last season while missing four with a sprained MCL, admitted being here in the long term would mean a lot.
“Cleveland called me many years ago, trusted me and trusted me to come here and help build this culture of this team that I was a part of,” he said. “I have a feeling, yes, Cleveland is where I want to be and I hope everything can work out in that direction.”
According to Pro Football Focus, Chubb is number 4 running back into the season in the NFL. For the past two seasons, he’s had the best broken tackle rate in the NFL with 124 and 488 carries.
“I hope we can pick up where we left off,” he said. “We had a great team last year and did great things. It’s still a process. We can’t get in here and be too far ahead of ourselves. We still have to endure it day after day, game after game and just keep getting better in all areas. “
He said he’s trained this season with the goal of “getting bigger, faster, stronger”. He also worked harder on his hands after dropping consecutive passes in the 22-17 loss to the Chiefs in the divisional round.
Chubb and his good friend Kareem Hunt hit their goal of both racing 1,000 yards too short, but that was in part because Chubb missed the four games. Hunt ended with 841.
“Yes, I always think we can do more,” he said. “Kareem is a great teammate and a great player. Every year it’s great to go out and play with him. Every year is a chance for us to go outside and show how we can be a dynamic duo every year. “
Chubb took Stefanski’s mandate to heart last season to sit in the divisional round with the Chiefs’ defeat and use it as a motivation to move deeper into the playoffs this year.
“I hope we can pick up where we left off,” he said. “We had a great team last year and did great things. It’s still a process. We can’t get in here and be too far ahead of ourselves. We still have to endure it day after day, game after game and just keep getting better in all areas. “
Chubb, arguably the best pure runner in the NFL, has stormed 1,000 yards in each of the last two seasons and only missed four in his rookie year after first dwarfing the milestone in the last game and then losing it in a run had.
In the 48-37 wildcard win over the Steelers, Chubb took a total of 145 yards on 22 touches, including a 40-yard TD catch in the fourth quarter that sealed the win.
According to The 33rd Team, Chubbs hit a 5.6-yard average last season, despite facing an 8-plus-man box about 31.5% of the time, the 10th highest in the league.
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