Cleveland Browns GM Andrew Berry is excited to see Nick Chubbs come out of the tunnel and get right back to work.
Chubb injured himself in week 2 last season and watched from the side as the Browns made the playoffs.
He had his deal restructured this season for salary cap reasons.
This means Chubb has to earn his incentive repacked salary and stay injury free and the same force of nature in the five years preceding 2023.
“Yeah, I won’t comment in detail on the contract, other than to say that I think that whenever you go through a situation like that, I think people think it’s easy for a club, an agent, to be adversarial,” Berry said. “And, you know, with Nick’s situation, I really applaud Nick and then his reps, Todd France and A.J. Stevens, for being really collaborative partners and finding a solution that worked for everybody.
“You know, I think everybody in this room is happy that Nick is back as a Cleveland Brown and we’re very optimistic that he’s going to crush the rehab.”
In case of a repeat of a running back crisis they have signed Nyheim Hines and D’Onta Foreman.
“Depth is important at every position, we were really pleased with that room last year,” Berry said. “I thought Jerome and Pierre in particular, you know, did an incredible job filling in last year, and then obviously we had Kareem (Hunt) in those high leverage and short yardage moments.
“But Jerome and Pierre, they got obviously a lot of time and a lot of reps last year and feel very good about their skillset. We’ve added a couple of guys to that room with differing skill sets that can complement those guys, but we think we’re in a pretty strong spot.”
The Browns will be looking for another playoff run and a deep one at that, and the form of Chubb will be instrumental.
