Nick Chubb Knee Injury Video & Updates, How Long Will He Be Out?

Publish date: 2024-05-02

Nick Chubb's injury

On Monday, September 18, 2023, Nick Chubb was hit by Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick in the second quarter, bending Chubb’s left knee inward in a direction it is not designed to go. Quickly after, Chubb was seen on the field grabbing his knee in obvious pain as medics ran onto the field. He was carted off and ruled out for the rest of the game.

“Nick’s got a very significant knee injury,” Browns Coach Kevin Stefanski said in a postgame briefing Monday night. “He’s a great football player as we know, but he’s an even better person, so we will support him every step along the way.” When asked if he expected Chubb to be out for the rest of the season, Stefanski said, “I do.”

Chubb’s injury was so gruesome that ESPN refused to show it in the replay, but you can hear the crowd at the game reacting to it in this tweet, and, so long as you’re not eating, you can watch it in slow-motion here.

“It’s a blow for the whole team and we don’t want his injury to be in vain,” Browns defensive end Myles Garrett said in a postgame player press conference. “We got to push on, that’s what he’d want us to do. And if he had any choice in the matter, that’s what he would do. Just gotta continue to fight and use it as motivation.”

Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson observed that Chubb’s injury prompted “a lot of flashbacks to the previous one he had in college,” when the then-rising star running back suffered a dislocated left knee—yes, it’s the same knee this time around—and tore several ligaments: his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) located at the center of the knee; posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) located at the back of the knee; and lateral collateral ligament (LCL) which connects the thigh bone to the fibula, i.e. one of your calf bones. The injury threatened to end his football career and this one may too.

“It was tough honestly,” Watson told reporters after the game. “I know he don’t have a ‘C’ on his jersey, but he’s a captain, he’s a leader, he’s the definition of this team, of this city, of this organization. We got some holes to fill for him.”

Immediately after the injury, NFL insider Ian Rapoport tweeted: “RB Nick Chubb suffered a what is believed to be a significant and season-ending knee injury against the #Steelers, sources say, including multiple torn ligaments. He’ll have tests done. But unfortunately, essentially what it looked like.”

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