Fantasy football: Where to draft Cleveland Browns RB Nick Chubb

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Cleveland Browns RB Nick Chubb is making his way back from a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered in a Monday night game in Pittsburgh in Week 2 last season. It was a horrific injury, and he’ll start the season on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list — missing at least 4 games — so there is some murkiness surrounding his fantasy outlook.

Chubb is still 28 years old, but with the emergence of RB Jerome Ford as an every-down back last season in Chubb’s stead, and Cleveland adding productive RB D’Onta Foreman in free agency, even when Chubb is ready, he’ll have some company to take the pressure off of his surgically-repaired appendage.

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Nick Chubb’s ADP: 93.38

(ADP data courtesy of MyFantasyLeague.com; last updated at time of this publishing – ADPs continually change as more drafts occur)

Chubb’s 93.38 ADP in redraft leagues means he should be targeted anywhere in the range of the 7th to 11th round depending on the size of the league. WR Amari Cooper has the top ADP on the Browns at 51.55. Ford’s ADP is 98.38.

Among running backs, Chubb’s ADP puts him 34th at the position, behind Tennessee’s Tyjae Spears (93.20) and the Chargers’ Gus Edwards (88.16). Pittsburgh’s Jaylen Warren (94.22) is 35th and Cincinnati’s Chase Brown (94.55) is 36th.

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Nick Chubb’s 2023-24 stats

Games: 2

Carries | rushing yards: 28 | 170

Rushing touchdowns: 0

Receptions | receiving yards: 4 | 21

Receiving touchdowns: 0

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Where should you draft Chubb?

Chubb is a player you’re certainly not going to want to build around like in the past. In previous seasons, Chubb has been relied upon as an RB1 and early-round fantasy pick, but that all changed in Pittsburgh last season with the knee injury.

Now, the Browns have plenty of insurance in the backfield in the event Chubb suffers another injury or he returns not quite to his pre-injury form.

Chubb has been doing full-speed springs, agility work in practice, but he has not appeared in a preseason game and will miss the first 4 games of the regular season.

Plan on drafting at least 2 running backs ahead of Chubb. Don’t touch the Cleveland tailback until at least Round 7 in redraft leagues.

However, he isn’t a bad stash option for fantasy managers. There are some favorable opponents on the schedule in late September to early October, so hopefully he is back at 100 percent by then. However, it’s more than likely he helps fantasy managers way more in the 2nd half of the season, perhaps in Week 11 and beyond — after the Browns’ bye — rather than the early months. Expect coach Kevin Stefanski to be very, very careful with Chubb’s snap count and touches when he is green-lighted to play.

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