Browns’ Nick Chubb: Scores twice in Week 2 win

Chubb rushed 22 times for 124 yards and two touchdowns and brought in his only target for nine yards in the Browns’ 35-30 win over the Bengals on Thursday.

Chubb and backfield mate Kareem Hunt put on a clinic against the porous Bengals front seven, with the two combining for an average of 6.6 yards per rush on 32 carries. For his part, Chubb saw a nice bump in workload from a Game 1 tally of 10 carries, comfortably outpacing Hunt in that department by 12 rushing touches overall after having trailed his teammate by three against Baltimore four days earlier. The third-year pro’s 11-yard trip to the end zone in the first quarter opened the scoring on the night for Cleveland, and Chubb later added a one-yard touchdown in the latter stages of the third quarter to extend the Browns’ lead to double digits. The fact the Week 2 rushing workload tilted much heavier in Chubb’s direction had to elicit a sigh of relief from fantasy mangers for the time being, and the Georgia product will look to put together a successful encore at the expense of the Washington Football Team in a Week 3 home battle on Sunday, Sept. 27.

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