Head coach Kevin Stefanski did not make any major declarations about Nick Chubb’s availability, only saying they’ll continue to take it one day at a time.

“Yeah, Nick’s working very hard,” Stefanski said in his news conference. “Just spent some time with him just now. He’s going to take this thing day by day and see where we go. But this only comes with hard work.”

Related players: Jerome Ford, D'Onta Foreman, Pierre Strong Jr.

It was reported over the weekend that the Browns are expecting Chubb to return to play in their Week 7 matchup with the Bengals, the story said. Chubb has been sidelined since Week 2 of last season, when he suffered a serious knee injury. Ford is expected to miss time with a hamstring injury, which would leave the team with Foreman and Strong at the RB position.

Browns RB Jerome Ford will be week to week with his hamstring injury, HC Kevin Stefanski said.

Related players: Nick Chubb, D'Onta Foreman, Pierre Strong Jr.

It just so happens that Chubb is lurking around and potentially ready to make his return. Week to week doesn't bode well for Ford's chances to play in Week 7, meaning a committee of Foreman and Strong will likely be in the team's plans this week. Even if Chubb is back this week, it would probably be unfair to expect him to take on a huge workload. It will be worth monitoring Chubb's status the rest of the week, however.

Browns RB Nick Chubb is expected to make his season debut in Week 7 against the Bengals

Chubb returned to practice this week, over a year since tearing multiple ligaments in Week 2 of last season. Jerome Ford has held down the fort pretty well so far, averaging 5.2 yards per carry on 48 attempts. But if healthy, Chubb is one of the best backs in the league. The 1-4 Browns will try to right the ship against the Eagles before getting their star rusher back.

Browns rule out Grant Delpit, Ethan Pocic, Nick Chubb, Ronnie Hickman, Nyheim Hines, James Hudson III.

Denzel Ward, Maurice Hurst II, Jordan Hicks, Mohamoud Diabate listed as questionable.

David Njoku will play Sunday vs. Eagles.

Related Players: Jordan Akins, Jerome Ford, D'Onta Foreman, Pierre Strong Jr.

Hopefully Njoku can add a little boost to this floundering offense, and should slide right back into low-end TE1 range for fantasy.

As for the running back room, Ford likely holds onto the RB1 role for one more week, but the team has made it clear that they'd like to rotate him. This makes him a questionable call as your team's RB2, but at the very least, he provides a floor.

Browns players who returned to practice: Nick Chubb, David Njoku, Nyheim Hines, Pierre Strong Jr., Michael Dunn

Related Players: Jordan Akins

Akins performed well enough during Njoku's absence but not enough to get him on to fantasy radars. If Njoku plays in Week 5, he should re-take his spot in the lower-end TE1 range.

Head coach Kevin Stefanski confirmed that the plan is for Nick Chubb to take the next step in his return from last year’s knee injury.

Chubb is on the physically unable to perform list and his return to practice will kick off a three-week window for him to work with the team before reaching a deadline to activate him, the story said. There is no word yet just how soon, if at all, Chubb will get back on the field and be ready for game action. According to the story, Stafanski went on to say, “Won’t get too far down the road on that,” Stefanski said, via Zac Jackson of TheAthletic.com. “He’s working very hard. Natural progression is for him to start practicing . . . we’ll see how he goes from there.”

The Browns are releasing QB Tyler Huntley and signing RB D'Onta Foreman, source confirms.

Related Players: Jerome Ford, Pierre Strong, Nick Chubb

Well that didn't take long. For being cut so recently, he still has some fantasy value early in the season. Regardless, Ford should be the player we want, with a non-zero chance of being the No. 1 option for a vast majority of the season.

As things stand right now, the Browns have just two running backs on the 53-man roster: Jerome Ford and Pierre Strong, Jr.

The team cut D'Onta Foreman.

Related players: Nick Chubb

Yates said if the team intends to bring back Foreman, it could re-sign him without him going to waivers. With Chubb still on the PUP list, Yates speculates it could be a case of roster juggling as the team works through other position crunches. It would be hard to believe the team wouldn't bring back Foreman to run with Ford and Strong while they wait for Chubb to return to the lineup.

At the start of training camp, Browns General Manager Andrew Berry said that running back Nick Chubb still had “a little ways to go” before being fully cleared to return from last year’s season-ending knee injury.

Chubb reportedly still has a bit more to do before he gets that green light. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Chubb is expected to remain on the physically unable to perform list into the regular season.

Related players: Jerome Ford, Pierre Strong, D’Onta Foreman, Aidan Robbins, Jacob Saylors, Nyheim Hines

As the story points out, this would make Chubb ineligible to play in the first four games of the regular season and he would not count against the 53-man roster until he is activated from the list. Ford should have a pretty big role in the running game to at least start the season while Strong looks like a change of pace back. Foreman could get his share of carries as well, however, and has been a thorn in the side to fantasy owners over the last three years with the Bears, Panthers and Titans. Foreman has scored a total of 12 rushing TDs over that span, stealing work from the likes of Chuba Hubbard and Khalil Herbert.

Browns RB D’Onta Foreman is back with the team after his scary neck injury yesterday and being flown by helicopter to a nearby hospital. Again, X-rays and scans were negative.

Related Players: Nick Chubb, Jerome Ford, Nyheim Hines

Good news all around after a big scare yesterday. Foreman is looking to carve out an early-season role with Jerome Ford as Nick Chubb continues to recover from his knee injury.