Browns 2022 Position Review: Running Backs

The Browns are about a month removed from the 2022 season and making plans for improvements in 2023. Doing so, however, will require taking a look back at how each position fared, and we’ll be doing that ourselves at ClevelandBrowns.com with a comprehensive breakdown of each spot on the roster.

Rushing yards per game – 146.5 (5th in NFL)

Rushing attempts – 532 (5th in NFL)

Nick Chubb: 17 games, 302 attempts, 1525 yards (5.0 yards per carry), 12 TDs; 27 receptions, 239 yards, 1 TD

Kareem Hunt: 17 games, 123 attempts, 468 yards (3.8 yards per carry), 3 TDs; 35 receptions, 210 yards, 1 TD

D’Ernest Johnson: 15 games, 4 attempts, 17 yards (4.3 yards per carry); 3 receptions, 7 yards

Jerome Ford: 13 games, 8 attempts, 12 yards (1.5 yards per carry)

Demetric Felton: 8 games, 1 attempts, -4 yards; 2 receptions, 8 yards

The Browns leaned on Chubb more than any other season in his five-year career, and Chubb responded with a career-best total in rushing yards and matched his career-high in touchdowns. Hunt still contributed, too, although it wasn’t to the same extent as previous seasons working as a duo with Chubb. The Browns still found a way to boast one of the league’s best rushing attacks and looked particularly dominant at the beginning of the season, when Chubb cracked 100 rushing yards in five of the first eight games. The run game slowed a bit in the second half — Chubb topped 100 yards just twice after Week 8 and didn’t have a rushing touchdown in the last six games — as the Browns attempted to re-mold their offense with QB Deshaun Watson, but it still operated at an above-average pace and will continue to be a major piece of the Browns’ offensive success.

Statistically, the run game’s most dominant performance of the year was in Week 1. The Browns rushed for a season-high 217 yards and found most of their offensive production from their running backs — Chubb rushed for a season-high 141 yards, and Hunt built his…