BREAKING: UGA Football Legend Nick Chubb Makes Decision About NFL Future
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ATHENS - Former UGA Football superstar Nick Chubb signed a one-year deal worth up to $5 million with the Houston Texans.
Chubb spent his professional career with the Cleveland Browns until Monday. Chubb played only ten games over the last two seasons for the Browns due to a significant knee injury in week two of the 2023 season that knocked him out that season as well as the start of the 2024 season.
His 2024 ended with a broken foot in week 14.
Chubb is a former All-NFL running back. He spent seven years with the Browns - carrying the ball 1,340 times for 6,843 yards and 51 touchdowns. Chubb added 128 receptions for 1,042 yards and five touchdowns. The Browns selected Chubb No. 35 overall in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
Chubb may have been the linchpin to Kirby Smart’s early success at UGA. He was one of four permanent team captains on Kirby’s first SEC Championship team in 2017. Chubb and Sony Michel, who both signed with the Bulldogs in 2014 and took the program to its first national title game in decades, were a major part of the turn around of UGA Football’s program in the late 2010s.
The duo’s decision to stay at UGA after the 2016 season is considered one of the main moments in Kirby Smart’s tenure at Georgia. Chubb, Michel and several other rising seniors announced their decision to return to UGA weeks before the team played in the Liberty Bowl against TCU in 2016.
Since that announcement, the Bulldogs have played in three College Football Playoff National Championship Games - including a blowout win over TCU to conclude the 2022 season. Chubb ended his career at UGA with 4,769 career yards and 44 rushing touchdowns - behind only Herschel Walker in UGA and SEC all-time career leaders in rushing yards.
Chubb was named SEC Freshman of the Year and All-SEC First Team his freshman season. His best game of his four-year run at Georgia came in the 2014 Belk Bowl where he slashed No. 20 Louisville for 266 rushing yards.