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A healthy Nick Chubb was one of the most productive running backs in the league, averaging more than 1,000 scrimmage yards and 52 total touchdowns in each of his first five NFL seasons.

Last season, everything came to a halt when a gruesome knee injury forced him off the field in Week 2 and later put him under the knife for two different surgeries. He continues to be on the road to recovery and according to ESPN's Adam Schefteris expected to begin this season on the physically unable to perform list, which would keep him out of action for at least the first four games.

Chubb's theoretical potential may be worth the wait, but the reality is more complicated. He has a long injury history and is about to turn 29. Cleveland almost certainly won't rush him and has serviceable backups in Jerome Ford and D'Onta Foreman.

Some will target Chubb and hope for the best anyway, but that seems too risky to us. Chubb tore the ACL, posterior cruciate ligaments and medial meniscus in his left knee last season, and while at the University of Georgia he suffered a dislocation and tears of the posterior cruciate ligament, left ACL and medial collateral ligament in the same knee. A full recovery would be objectively great, but we wouldn't bet on it happening.