The Cleveland Browns should consider giving other backs reps instead of Kareem Hunt

Kareem Hunt has not looked like himself and its time for the Cleveland Browns to move on from him.

Kareem Hunt looks like burnt toast out there, as if to say he’s done. Like an overcooked steak. Hunt has had a rough year, and it’s not just due to a lack of playing time either. It’s what he does with that playing time. At times he looks fantastic, but most times he looks lost and disoriented. Like he’s not so much trying to run the ball as he is just looking for someone to hit.

Yes, the Browns have had injuries to the offensive line which you would think would hinder the Browns running game, but Nick Chubb looks as good as ever. It’s really just Hunt who looks like he can’t get moving.

The Browns are not in a place where they can continue to afford to give Hunt wasted reps. He is a significant downgrade from Chubb. The Browns would be wise to look at Jerome Ford and D’Ernest Johnson going forward because we know that Hunt can’t step up in big moments on the ground.

Sure, he’s got some nice hands, but who’s to say that the team doesn’t have a better pass-catcher back on the roster already? Even if the Browns don’t have a better pass-catcher out of the backfield, we do know that Hunt is no longer a big-time playmaker. So there’s no reason to continue to feed him reps that could be given to others to see what they can do with them.

The Cleveland Browns once again overplayed their hand by not trading a player

The Browns will be lucky to get a draft pick in compensation for Hunt when he leaves for free agency. He’s having a career-worst year in productivity and efficiency, and anyone who gives him a contract with the idea that he’ll start for your team will have wasted their money.

The way draft compensation is awarded to teams has little to do with name value, and more to do with productivity, future earnings, free agents lost on a given team, and free agents gained by a given team. Right now, Hunt isn’t getting the Browns a seventh-rounder.

The team should’ve traded him in the offseason when he requested one, and when his value was at an all-time high. Right now he is a hindrance to this offense and he is holding the team back.