How Georgia Running Back Nick Chubb Fought to Reconstruct His Career

ATLANTA — Georgia running back Nick Chubb sprawled to keep his opponent from grabbing his legs and bringing him down. The 5'10", 228-pounder was doing his best MMA impression.

But Chubb wasn't trying to avoid an SEC linebacker, and he wasn't running between the hedges. A mere five months after tearing three ligaments in his left knee, including his posterior cruciate, he was in a martial arts studio, grappling with taekwondo black belt Sean Borders.

"The movement and the different ranges of motion that the body is going through works the muscles and tendons in different ways," said Borders, who runs Borders Black Belt Academy just outside Athens with his twin brother, Cole. "Taekwondo…