Free agent operating again D’Onta Foreman is signing with the Cleveland Browns, a supply instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday.
Foreman will be part of a committee that features Jerome Ford and Pierre Robust Jr. as star operating again Nick Chubb is not anticipated to be prepared for the beginning of the 2024 season after a devastating harm to his left knee in Week 2 final season.
Chubb underwent two surgical procedures: the primary to restore the medial capsule, meniscus and MCL in late September, and the second to restore the ACL in November. The injured knee was the identical one Chubb had reconstructed after tearing his MCL, PCL and LCL whereas at Georgia in 2015.
Kareem Hunt, who led the Browns with 9 speeding touchdowns final season, is a free agent.
After signing in March 2023, Foreman turned a part of a crowded backfield final season for the Chicago Bears together with rookie Roschon Johnson, a fourth-round choose, and Khalil Herbert.
Foreman, who turns 28 on April 24, noticed restricted motion in Chicago’s season-opening loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers and was a wholesome scratch within the subsequent 4 video games. It wasn’t till Herbert suffered an ankle harm in Week 5 that Foreman earned extra taking part in time, together with a season-best 89 speeding yards and three complete touchdowns in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 7.
He generated most of his manufacturing from Weeks 6-11, totaling 87 carries for 365 yards (4.2 yards per carry) in addition to seven catches for 47 yards and a mixed 4 touchdowns. After an harm pressured him to take a seat out a Week 12 win in opposition to the Minnesota Vikings, Foreman solely began two extra video games earlier than turning into a wholesome scratch in Weeks 16-18.
Foreman joined the Bears after David Montgomery left Chicago to hitch NFC North rival Detroit. After spending the primary 4 seasons of his profession with the Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans, Foreman had his greatest season with the Carolina Panthers in 2022, showing in all 17 video games — the primary time in his profession he had been wholesome for a whole season — whereas posting a career-high 914 speeding yards and 5 touchdowns.
ESPN’s Courtney Cronin contributed to this report.
