ESPN Report: Browns Star Nick Chubb Announced A Departure Since The Knee Injury Is Not Yet….
BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry said he expects running back Nick Chubb to be on the roster next season and would “absolutely love” to have quarterback Joe Flacco return as well.
“I want to bring all of our good players back,” Berry said Monday, “but there are constraints.”
Flacco, 39, signed with Cleveland on Nov. 20 after starting quarterback Deshaun Watson’s season-ending right shoulder injury. The fourth quarterback to start for the Browns during the season, Flacco propelled Cleveland to a four-game winning streak and the No. 5 seed in the AFC playoffs. The Browns lost to the Houston Texans in the first round 45-14.
Flacco will be a free agent again, and the Browns are counting on Watson to be cleared this spring from surgery on his throwing shoulder. But Berry wouldn’t rule out the possibility of re-signing Flacco to back up Watson.
“Joe, he played winning football for us,” Berry said. “He did a great job of coming in and really playing at a high level. … I believe that backup quarterback really is a top-30 position on the roster.”
Berry, however, also compared Flacco’s situation to quarterback Jacoby Brissett’s last year. Brissett started 11 games for Cleveland in 2022 while Watson was suspended for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy after more than two dozen women accused him of committing sexual assault and inappropriate conduct during massage sessions. With Watson back atop the depth chart, Brissett ultimately left Cleveland and signed with the Washington Commanders.
The Browns also have rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson coming back. The fifth-round pick started three games this season while Watson was injured.
“[Flacco] is a good quarterback,” Berry said. “But it really depends … on the availability and the cost.”
Berry also praised Chubb, who suffered a season-ending left knee injury in Week 2 against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Chubb underwent two surgeries, the first to repair the medial capsule, meniscus and MCL in late September, and a second in November to repair the ACL. The injured knee was the same one Chubb had reconstructed after tearing his MCL, PCL and LCL while at Georgia in 2015.
Chubb, who has rushed for 6,511 yards and 48 touchdowns over six seasons with the Browns, also has no guaranteed money left on the extension he signed in 2021. But Berry said the plan is for Chubb to play for the Browns again in 2024.
“No one in the organization, nobody wants to see that carry in Pittsburgh be the last time that he carries the ball for the Cleveland Browns,” Berry said. “Obviously there are things that we’ll have to work through, but [moving on from Chubb] would not be our intention.”
2 adults charged with murder in Chiefs parade mass shooting
Missouri prosecutors said Tuesday that two adults have been charged with murder in last week’s mass shooting that killed one person and injured 22 others near the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.
Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, Missouri, and Dominic Miller, of Kansas City, Missouri, are both charged with second-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.
According to court documents, the two men were strangers who pulled out guns and began firing within seconds of starting an argument. Both men were shot, and they have been hospitalized since the shooting, Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said during a news conference.
They are each being held on a $1 million bond.
The argument began when two groups of people grew agitated over the belief that people in the other group were staring at them, according to affidavits from police. Surveillance video shows Mays and someone with him aggressively approached the other group, police say.
The video showed Mays was the first to begin shooting despite being surrounded by crowds of people, including children, according to one of the affidavits.
Mays told detectives that “he hesitated shooting because he knew there were kids there,” according to the affidavit. He told investigators he began firing after someone in the other group said, “I’m going to get you,” which he took to mean they would try to kill him. He said he chose a random person from the other group to shoot at as that person was running away, the affidavit says.
Miller initially told investigators that he and his friends began running after hearing gunfire and that he was shot in the back, one affidavit says. When investigators told Miller they had video of him chasing someone in Mays’ group and shooting, Miller admitted to firing four to five shots, the affidavit said.
A bullet from Miller’s gun killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan, officials said Tuesday. Lopez-Galvan was in a nearby crowd of people watching the Chiefs rally, according to one of the affidavits.
“It is reassuring for our family and the entire community to know that this joint team effort has resulted in the identification of the suspects involved,” Lopez-Galvan’s family said in a statement after Tuesday’s announcement.
Online court records did not list attorneys who could comment on the behalf of Mays or Miller. The Missouri State Public Defender’s Office said applications for public defenders for the men had not yet been received by the Kansas City office.
Authorities did not release ages for either man, but court records show Mays is in his early 20s and Miller is 18 or 19.
The new charges come after two juveniles were detained last week on gun-related and resisting arrest charges. Authorities said more charges are possible.
“I do want you to understand — we seek to hold every shooter accountable for their actions on that day. Every single one,” Peters Baker said. “So while we’re not there yet on every single individual, we’re going to get there.”
The 22 people injured range in age from 8 to 47, according to police Chief Stacey Graves.
The shooting was the latest at a sports celebration in the United States. A shooting wounded several people last year in Denver after the Nuggets’ NBA championship.
