Former Cleveland Browns RB Kareem Hunt has the game of a lifetime awaiting him on Sunday when the Kansas City Chiefs play the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl.
Despite being drafted by the Chiefs in 2017, Hunt has not won a Super Bowl. The Chiefs cut Hunt in 2018 after an off-field incident and he spent the next five seasons with the Browns.
An early season injury to RB Isiah Pacheco brought on the need for rubbing back depth and Hunt was sitting there as a free agent.
“It is like going back to your first love, that is how it pretty much feels. I’m excited to be here and get to play for Coach Reid and the guys I came in with,” Hunt told the media earlier in the week.
This season, Hunt has run for 728 yards and seven touchdowns with the Chiefs. The former Browns running back has carried the ball 200 times, which is the most he has since his rookie season in 2017 with the Chiefs. Hunt never stopped talking to some of his Chiefs teammates even while with Cleveland and that kept the chemistry going.
“It is great man. Me and Travis [Kelce] stayed in touch the whole time I was in Cleveland. That’s always going to be a brother for me,” Hunt explained.”I’m just so happy for him and how his career has went. He is the best to ever do it at the tight end position.”
While splitting time with Nick Chubb in Cleveland, 198 rushes was the most that Hunt had in 2020. It was never a sure thing that Hunt would play in a Super Bowl after six years in Cleveland. The former Toledo Rocket is on the back end of his career but is still running the rock hard.
Now, Browns fans will be rooting for success for Hunt in the Super Bowl, even if they don’t root for the Chiefs. Hunt turned his life and career around in his home area of Cleveland and will always have people in his circle there.
