{"id":17438,"date":"2024-12-13T01:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T01:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2024-12-13T01:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T01:18:25","slug":"how-chiefs-rb-kareem-hunt-feels-about-coming-home-to-face-the-browns-who-didnt-re-sign-him-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17438","title":{"rendered":"How Chiefs RB Kareem Hunt feels about coming home to face the Browns, who didn\u2019t re-sign him: Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"3DS5IUN4SBEM5BVDHB33LI6WNI\">CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 Kareem Hunt would\u2019ve loved to re-sign with his hometown Browns in the offseason, but got something even better: a chance to return to the Chiefs and win the Super Bowl ring he missed out on in 2020.<\/p>\n<p id=\"44TGBOXORJGMJBZG5AULWV4ZCE\">Hunt, who played for the Browns from 2019 to 2023 after the Chiefs cut him, re-signed with Kansas City in September after running back Isiah Pacheco suffered a broken fibula, and leads the team with 608 yards on 167 carries, and 5 rushing TDs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"665WHICRYRGWTPURU3DERURB2Q\">\u201cI\u2019m definitely excited to see my family (and) see some of my close guys on the team and definitely battle,\u201d he told reporters in Kansas City Wednesday. \u201cI definitely had a good time. I spent the last five years there (in Cleveland) so it\u2019s kind of different to be on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"KXY2UAHYGRDU7BLI65TGZFZDCM\">Hunt, whom the Browns let walk in free agency before last season, re-signed with the team after Nick Chubb went down with his major knee injury in Week 2, and led the team with nine rushing touchdowns. He also finished second with 411 rushing yards and a 3.0 average. Much to Hunt\u2019s dismay, the Browns had no plans to re-sign him in the offseason, and he was waiting for his opportunity when the Chiefs called.<\/p>\n<section>\n<ul data-testid=\"list\">\n<li>Browns receiver Jerry Jeudy seeks a milestone and Mike Hall likely to return: Berea Report (Video)<\/li>\n<li>Browns WR Jerry Jeudy finally has a chance to reach a coveted milestone vs. Chiefs after 4 frustrating seasons in Denver<\/li>\n<li>How Browns&#8217; rookie defensive lineman feels about his chances to play against the Chiefs on Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p id=\"7BJLPB76GFBSVBX77P5IUEEY3Q\">It marked an emotional return for Hunt, who was cut by the Chiefs in 2019 when video surfaced that he had an altercation with a woman in the hallway of his downtown Cleveland apartment building.<\/p>\n<p id=\"V3INK3ON3FBOVOLTXKIMV5VDYY\">Hunt was distraught when the Chiefs, who had drafted him in the third round of the 2017 draft out of Toledo, went to the Super Bowl without him after the 2019 season. He was stopped for speeding in Cleveland a week before the Super Bowl, and got emotional during the 46-minute stop encounter with the police, according to the dashcam video.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2VU5TZ7BARDN3JTTTYBV5BCPOU\">He admitted \u201cit hurts my soul\u2019&#8217; that he wasn\u2019t facing the 49ers in the Super Bowl that Sunday, a game the Chiefs won 31-20.<\/p>\n<p id=\"M2T3BCBFBVDZPOR2VGM44RL7OI\">\u201cMan, I\u2019ve been through a lot,\u2019\u2019 Hunt told the officer. \u201cOfficer, I\u2019ve been through a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"5J76MLO76JEVRBZNL4T46UHNNE\">He added that he\u2019d been \u201cthrough the trenches, man\/ I\u2019m just trying to be in my hometown and chill.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"BKBPLGVLHJBXPBMNLXSLGHP2UA\">Hunt, who served a six-game suspension by the NFL to start that season, eventually went on to embrace playing for his hometown team, and wanted nothing more than to win a Super Bowl with the Browns.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Y33OHNH2G5HYNHFVUECIB7CB44\">Now, he has a chance to win one this season with his old friends Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, his fellow Cleveland-native.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QO6QPSAE7NCJ5KOFBCB3PAGAW4\">How much do he and Kelce talk about Cleveland?<\/p>\n<p id=\"6JHFDB5XGZAC7P5BLI5DZUPTMA\">\u201cAll the time. We will always both go back there (to Cleveland). It\u2019s always going to be home for us, but we\u2019re just excited to go out there and get to play out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"QEOZMMRINNAHZANPDRLRWNOLMA\">In the Chiefs\u2019 37-21 victory in Cleveland on Nov. 4, 2018, both hometown boys scored two TDs, which he counts as his best memory with Kelce.<\/p>\n<p id=\"WUZWFLGZPNHSDK5RH775ESQWSI\">\u201cProbably going back there (to Cleveland) I think (in) 2018 when we went to Cleveland and played them last time there,\u201d he said. \u201cI think he (Travis Kelce) had two touchdowns (and) I had (two) and (91) yards so that\u2019s probably a good memory for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"IZDFVHGLXVA33OV6H6WHFV6MNY\">Pacheco is back now from his injury, but Hunt will still get playing time in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p id=\"22QSE5XMG5GMRLSZT5JTQUGQRE\">\u201cIt\u2019s been going good, man. I love the energy (that) he (Isiah Pacheco) brings; he\u2019s doing heck of a job and it\u2019s doing a great job of keeping us both fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"UHVXSON5VRHJDPEULJFLM4FX4E\">Chubb, Hunt\u2019s close friend, knows how much all of this means to him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LV4AB3RPVFEIPHL2KROBBJVCJQ\">\u201cOh, excited for him, for sure,\u201d Chubb said Wednesday. \u201cObviously he got drafted there, it means a lot to him. He was on pace to\u00a0having\u00a0crazy numbers when he first got there, his first year and second year, and obviously he ended up here for whatever reason, but I had a chance to get to meet him, play with him, which I\u2019m\u00a0blessed, he\u2019s more than a teammate, he\u2019s a brother to me. So to see him get to go back, he always expressed how much Kansas City meant to him, so to see him go back there and have success, I know that\u2019s what he\u2019s always dreamed of. So I\u2019m proud of him, happy for him. Happy to see him on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"PRJWHAMRT5DCHGGMHEZ3IOA5WY\">Chubb wasn\u2019t sure why the Browns didn\u2019t re-sign Hunt. Instead, they signed D\u2019Onta Foreman to be their short-yardage back, but he\u2019s been a healthy scratch the past five games.<\/p>\n<p id=\"V4B4XXGYT5AYDGO3RYZFLZSAZM\">\u201cThat\u2019s above my pay grade, but I love Kareem, I\u00a0love the running backs\u00a0we have here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"YLOYW5XMEZG57C6RH2PMGUUPYQ\">He acknowledged it was hard for Hunt not to get re-signed here.<\/p>\n<p id=\"WAYYRGVLYBDQJELQ5OMMOPNGSI\">\u201cOh, I\u2019m sure it was,\u201d he said. \u201cKareem\u2019s from Cleveland. He loves the Cleveland Browns. He\u2019s a Brown. So yeah, I\u2019m sure it was hard for him,\u00a0but he\u2019s\u00a0back where he started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"X6U5AV4DIFHJ7OMUJNLSCZXGRM\">Safety Grant Delpit is eager to face his former teammate and friend. When asked about how hard he runs, Delpit said, \u201cand I hit pretty hard and I\u2019ve been telling him I\u2019m going to catch him. I told him that when he (signed there), so been looking forward to it. His dreads just swing hard. It looks like he\u2019s running hard, he\u2019s not really running hard. He\u2019s just swinging his dreads (joking). No, Kareem\u2019s a great player. I\u2019m happy to see his success he\u2019s having, and hopefully we get to meet a couple of times.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b>Joel Bitonio and David Njoku still idle, Myles Garrett returns<\/b><\/h2>\n<p id=\"RN77HAEYNFFQJD66QJQU2IDJGI\">Bitono (back) and Njoku (hamstring) were still idle on Thursday, but Bitonio sounded like he\u2019ll give it a go. Njoku, on the other hand, will likely sit.<\/p>\n<p id=\"R3INHLI3LFHOXJIDOJMKMGSR5A\">\u201cWe\u2019ll see how it goes (Friday),\u201d Bitonio said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to look too far in the future. Backs are weird like that where you wake up one morning and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh shoot, I can\u2019t move.\u2019 And then as you work through the day, it starts going a lot better. So tomorrow we\u2019ll see how it goes and see if we can move around a little bit at practice and kind of go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"ZZY7FNS4WJGNHBVIOTF26ZGMYA\">Garrett also returned Thursday from the personal reason that kept him out on Wednesday. But the Chiefs were without starting left tackle D.J. Humphries (hamstring) for the second straight day.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Football Insider newsletter free trial:<\/b> Take a minute and sign up for a free trial of our Football Insider newsletter, featuring exclusive content from cleveland.com&#8217;s Browns reporters.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. 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