Browns rushing into season with NFL’s top running back duo

Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty ImagesThere was a point during the 2020 NFL season where it appeared the Cleveland Browns would boast a pair of 1,000-yard running backs.

Running back Nick Chubb held up his end of the bargain, finishing the season with 1,067 rushing yards despite missing four games with a knee injury. Fellow running back Kareem Hunt came up 159 yards short of joining Chubb at 1,000 yards and making them the first pair of running backs to accomplish the feat since Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams of the Carolina Panthers in 2009.

When you factor in receiving yards, however, Chubb and Hunt had almost identical seasons as Chubb finished with 1,217 combined yards and 12…