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This is the athletic football show's Prospects to Pros.

Hello, welcome to Prospects to Pros.

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I am your host, Nate Tice.

We have our first mailbag of the season,

first mailbag that we have done as a pairing, as a duo, the duo being me, Nate Tice. And as

always, the athletics draft expert, Dane Bruegler, how you doing today, Dane? I'm doing good.

Still feeling a little numb from that Chubb injury last night. But you know what? It's, you got to power through. And that's, it's just, I don't know, I think all of us in the NFL around the league just, it couldn't happen to a work, to a better guy, you know? That's the thing. Right. So it's, can battle back from it, it's Chubb. He has a guy that had a left knee injury before. The guy's, you know, he's made out of vibranium anyways. You know, like he's going to be able to bounce back. It's just how long is it going to take? And, you know, the Browns have some contract decisions to make at the running back position.

So what does this mean for the Browns this year?

There's so many in the way, especially the way the game played out last night.

So many questions come from that injury.

But just a shame because such a good player, such a good guy.

By all accounts, supposed to be just a tremendous human, just a tremendous person and everything, great teammate, everything you want from a football player.

And I think there is something about when a guy gets hurt and it's just that look at defeat right away, like, where it's just like, they know, where they're just like, yeah, that's it.

Oh, that, that one, those are the ones that, I mean, yeah, a person really making a lot of noise when they get hurt too, but like those are the ones that are just like, man, they really sink in, especially a star like that, like you're saying. And I think it's going to be extremely interesting for what happens with this Browns team because of some of the struggles with the passing game and some of the stuff that they're trying to blend together.

So, a lot of the struggles with the passing game and some of the stuff that they're trying to blend together. So a lot of elements. I hope Nick Chope comes back because he's one of the best players in the league at any position. And I mean, just such a dynamic talent. So hopefully it gets healthy. That does sing. That does stink overall. It really does. Big opportunity for Jerome Ford. John Ford. you year guy who, I think you liked him maybe a little bit more than I did, but, you know, I still, I got that like fourth round type of grade on him. And that was the third round. It wasn't like, oh, super, super high. Yeah. Right. And so this is a big opportunity. I mean, he has speed. He's got some burst to him. It's just a matter of,

and he's playing behind a really good offensive line. But to your point about the passing game,

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