BEREA, Ohio — Browns schoolteacher Kevin Stefanski mentioned Tuesday that Jerome Ford is now Cleveland’s featured working again within the wake of the season-ending shock to Nick Chubb.

The All-Professional rusher injured his left knee in the second one quarter of Monday night time’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Chubb needed to be carted off the garden. Stefanski declined to specify Chubb’s shock however did say that Chubb will require surgical operation.

Stefanski mentioned the Browns are “working on” including every other participant to the working again room, however that Ford would enter the for Chubb as Cleveland’s manage again.

Ford pressed for time for 106 yards on 16 carries Monday, together with a 69-yard run that arrange a Browns landing. He additionally stuck 3 passes for 25 yards and hauled in a landing seize right away later Chubb’s shock.

“You don’t replace Nick Chubb,” Stefanski mentioned. “You just don’t do that. Great players in the league, you look around, they go out. It’s always not one person that replaces a player of [Chubb’s] caliber. So, everybody’s got to do a little bit more, a little bit more everywhere.”

The Browns drafted Ford within the 5th spherical out of Cincinnati closing age.