NFL teams are STILL SCARED of Nick Chubb even after last year's gruesome injury

Is going through its list of the top 10 players in the NFL at each position. And in 2024 they surveyed executives and coaches from around the league, this is not players, this is executives and coaches. And according to the ESPN articles, you can't vote for your own guys and they compiled a list of the 10 best running backs for the upcoming season. And our guy Nick Chubb, despite coming off a season ending injury came in at number three. Number one was Christian mccaffrey. Number two was Breece Hall of the Jets three, Nick Chubb, four, Squan Barkley and five, Jonathan Taylor. Surprise that Chubb despite him off injury, that's a stunner because we don't even know if he's gonna be ready to go for the start of the season. It shows you how much respect that coaches and executives around the league have for Nick Chubb and how great a player he is. Uh I don't know how you could put him third coming off a massive injury at his age because even, you know, I mean, this is a massive massive injury. The second one. Yeah, and it's hard to be great, right. After that. So I wouldn't have him third. But it shows you the respect that he he has earned, excuse me around the league. Yeah, this is, remember whether Nick Chubb had a legitimate shot to get into the hall of fame and we were kind of projecting out and he was like, he's still got a lot of work to do. Um This list just shows you they got him in a category of like a man like a Gail Sayers type like or, or Terrell Davis is like, I mean, he coming off a major surgery and this is the second one. He's already like third. They're saying, oh, it don't matter. He's going to come back and be the chub. It doesn't matter to me that says a lot that speaks volume about what they think and this is G MS and stuff. These are the people that cut people for $20 million. It also feels like an indictment on the rest of the running backs, doesn't it? Do you want the rest of the top 10? And, uh, we mentioned Christian mccaffrey one, Breece Hall, two, Nick chubb, three sewn four Jonathan Taylor, 56 Bijon Robinson, seven Josh Jacobs, eight Jamir Gibbs nine, Derek Henry and 10 Travis ETN. And then honorable mentions who receive votes but not enough to qualify. Aaron Jones, Kenneth Walker, Isaiah Pacheco James Cook, Alvin Kamara, Joe Mixon and DeAndre Swift. That's dang Derek Henry. You almost out the top 10. He's old, a lot of mileage on the tires, but he is in Baltimore. Now. I do think it is the utmost sign of respect. You still vote chub that high coming off a season where he played 1.5 games. It's his second career severe knee injury and I still have them above the likes of Squan Jonathan Taylor, Bijon, Derek, Henry etn, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, let's as, as much as I love Nick Chubb, if I were drafting teams for just this year, forget the rest of their careers. So age is not a big factor. I wouldn't take Nick Chubb third as much as I love him would, would anybody because I don't, I don't know what, I don't know what. Now, maybe if I was his personal trainer and knew he was in, you know, just, it was going to be fine, then maybe I'd feel differently. But with the information we have, I don't know how I'd vote him third, you know, as I'll be looking at a bunch of these lists. Um, this team, like people feel like the New York Jets is kind of good, like Pff says they have the best secondary, best linebackers, the best D line, they just rated Bruce Hall the second, best running, but the Jets are like the Browns, there are two teams in it before we talked about how the Cavs the Spurs are in their own category or the Cavs could I said with Sacramento, the Browns and Jets are in a category unlike any other team, they're, they're two extremely talented rosters where you don't know what you're gonna get from the quarterback. Who else is, who else is in that category? There are any other NFL teams that their quarterback determines everything right that you don't know, not that the quarter because the quarterback determines everything for all the good teams, But you know, all the other contenders, you know, their quarterbacks, if they're healthy, you're gonna be good, right? I don't, II I know Patrick Mahomes is gonna be good if he's healthy. I know Joe Burrow is gonna be good if he's healthy. I know Lamar is gonna be good if he's healthy on and on and on, the rest of the quarterbacks. I know they're gonna be good if they're healthy with Aaron Rodgers and Deshaun Watson, I don't know for sure. And if you're, if you're one of those, the, the Watson Warriors, you've conned yourself with all these convoluted arguments as to why Deshaun Watson has been good the last two years when he's clearly not been. That's a strong word. You've conned into anything we want. Deshaun Watson, we don't know if he's going to be good. The same thing for Aaron Rodgers. There's a lot of assumption that he's going to be a great quarterback again. He's 40 coming off an Achilles tear. How do you assume he who's been good at 40 besides Tom Brady, has any other quarterback been good at 40? Could you put the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in that c absolutely not, absolutely not. Where if Baker's healthy, you don't know if he's good or not. But Baker, unlike Aaron Rodgers and Des Baker's upside is limited. Whereas Deshaun Watson could be a 10 or a two. Aaron Rodgers could be a 10 or a two. B, could be a six or a two. That's a big difference. The Buccaneers are not a Super bowl contender. I guess I misunderstood you. What I'm saying is the Jets and the Browns are the two teams that if their quarterback plays at their best, they're super bowl contenders, they have the supporting cast in place. The Buccaneers are not a Super bowl contender no matter what I understand now. Sorry, I misinterpreted how you were. That's putting that into consideration, I don't think, I mean, could you put Russell Wilson in there if he plays at his best, the Steelers could win a Super Bowl because he, no, because his best was his best was never as good as Deshaun Watson's best and certainly never as good as Aaron Rodgers best. And in my opinion, unlike Watson and Rogers, I'm giving him no chance of playing at his best again. What about the CJ? Strout in that category? Uh No, because even though you could argue that, uh you know, it's, I only did it once I think, I think it's way more likely. I'm much more co for me, I'm much more confident that CJ Stroud will be excellent if he's healthy than I am about Watson or Rogers. I don't know how you guys feel. That's how I feel. You could argue that because he's only done it one year. And the last team I would say you could throw in there. Potentially the Niners. If Purdy stinks are they still as good? And if he plays well, they're no, but I have no, I, I, when Purdy's been in the league, he's only played well, why would I assume he's not? Why would I, I think Russ could fit that category you're talking about? I think his elite was pretty elite. But I think it's been so long since we've seen it and unlike Deshaun Watson where it's been long, he's young, Deshaun, well, younger than Russell Wilson significantly. That's the difference. Russell Wilson's older and it's been Russell Wilson's decline has been, first of all, he wasn't as talented as Deshaun Watson, but he's also a lot older than Deshaun Watson. And I, I'm just talking to myself, you can make whatever argument you want. To me, the Browns and Jets are in that category. I know, I know exactly what you're talking about. I know exactly what you're trying to describe and I tend to agree. I, I just, I think Russ could be in there but I don't, I think his best days are over and we know his best days are behind him and this is the downside now for them. I just don't want to see. Like, I think, I think like, if Justin Fields figured it out, I don't want to see Justin Fields, I would like them. I would prefer Russell Wilson over Justin Fields because I think Justin Fields brings something a little different. Didn't Brooke Pryor say she expects like they're going to get a look at fields this year. What's the point of just handing Russell Wilson the job? That makes no sense. There's no reason not to have a competition. They're not paying either of them. They're not committed to either of them beyond this year. I don't want to misstate this. I think she said even like Russ will probably win it to start the year, but you're going to see fields because they got to make a decision on him for the future. But I don't even know why we'd assume why she'd assume that Russ would start. I think the Steelers have said he's the starter, but there's zero reason not to have a true competition there. And they might as well say that now. Right. You know, and you could think about it. What's the harm in going from Wilson to Justin Fields? I think it's easier to go from Wilson to fields than from fields to Wilson. I mean, I think Russell Justin Fields has the higher upside and, but the lower downside for sure. So, I, I don't know.