The Cleveland Browns may be moving on from the amazing Nick Chubb, but that doesn’t mean that the running game will go extinct in Cleveland. If you ask most Browns fans, running the football should always be the team’s identity, even if the NFL has become mostly a passing league.
Given projections about HC Kevin Stefanksi’s offense in 2025, Cleveland drafting both Quinshon Judkins and Dylan Sampson makes sense. The pair can be deployed in some interesting ways with the bigger Judkins and the speedier Sampson.
Drafted two rounds later, Sampson has seen Alvin Kamara comparisons due to playing styles and both played at the University of Tennessee. Those comparisons started prior to heading to college, including from Sampson himself:
Coming out of college, Sampson’s lack of size impacted his Relative Athletic Score compared to Kamara, but he also ran faster than the New Orleans Saints star:
Over at Browns Film Breakdown, we see how some clips from Sampson and how his vision and running style make sense as a comparison to Kamara. Despite the timed speed noted above, Sampson doesn’t always pull away like Kamara in the open field:
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Do you think the Sampson/Kamara comparison makes sense or just easy to do with both going to Tennessee? What do you expect from the Browns 4th round running back this year?
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