Kareem Hunt

He joined stars Marshall Faulk (for the Indianapolis Colts in 1994, 174 yards) and Billy Sims (for the Detroit Lions in 1980, 217 yards), as the only NFL players since 1970 to debut with over 150 scrimmage yards and three touchdowns.

His 148 rushing yards led all NFL rushers for Week 1.

Hunt was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Month for the month of September after leading the NFL with 401 rushing yards, 538 yards from scrimmage, and 8.53 yards per carry.

In a Week 7 31–30 road loss to the Oakland Raiders, he had 117 scrimmage yards for his seventh straight game accomplishing the feat.

Kareem AJ Hunt (born August 6, 1995) is an American football running back for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL).

As a freshman at Toledo in 2013, Hunt played in 12 games with three starts and rushed for 866 yards on 137 carries with six touchdowns.

He had a strong four-game stretch in the season with 127 rushing yards and two touchdowns against Navy, 114 rushing yards and a touchdown against Bowling Green, 168 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns against Eastern Michigan, and 186 rushing yards and a touchdown against Buffalo.

As a sophomore, he played in 10 games, missing three due to an injury.

In the 10 games that he appeared in, he rushed for at least 101 yards in all of them.

He rushed for 1,631 yards on 205 carries with 16 touchdowns.

He was the MVP of the 2015 GoDaddy Bowl victory over Arkansas State after rushing for 271 yards and five touchdowns, which tied an NCAA record with Barry Sanders.

Hunt was suspended for the first two games of his junior year in 2015 due to a violation of team rules.

He returned for the third game, but was injured during the game and missed the next two games.

Overall, in the 2015 season, he finished with 973 rushing yards and 12 rushing touchdowns.

In 2016, Hunt played all 13 games, leading the MAC in both rush attempts (262) and yards (1,475), including 200 rushing yards in the loss at #14 Western Michigan.

His 4,945 career rushing yards broke Chester Taylor's school record, and was third all time in MAC conference history.

In addition, he holds career school records for yards per rush (6.3, with a minimum of 100 rushes), and total yards from scrimmage (5,500).

This marked the second season in a row where a rookie led the league in rushing (Ezekiel Elliott in 2016).

He played college football for the Toledo Rockets and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2017 NFL Draft.

He was selected to the Pro Bowl as a rookie after leading the NFL in rushing yards but was released during his second season after being recorded physically assaulting a woman, including shoving the woman to the ground and then kicking her.

Hunt was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round (86th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft.

He was the sixth running back to be selected in the draft.

In addition, he was the first of three Toledo Rockets to be selected that year.

Following a knee injury to starting running back Spencer Ware in the Chiefs' third preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks, Hunt was named starting running back for the Chiefs on August 27, 2017.

Hunt made his NFL debut on September 7, 2017, against the New England Patriots.

On his first career NFL carry, despite never losing a fumble during his college career, Hunt fumbled, with the ball being recovered by the Patriots' safety Devin McCourty.

Hunt went on to catch two touchdown passes – a three-yarder from quarterback Alex Smith late in the first half, and a 78-yarder in the fourth quarter, and punched in a four-yard rushing touchdown in the fourth en route to a 42–27 Chiefs win.

Hunt finished with 246 total yards from scrimmage (148 rushing, 98 receiving), the most ever in an NFL debut.

On December 19, 2017, Hunt was named to the 2018 Pro Bowl as a rookie.

Heading into Week 17, Hunt was third in the NFL in rushing yards behind Todd Gurley and Le'Veon Bell.

Both Gurley and Bell were inactive for Week 17 after both teams clinched the playoffs and were resting their players, giving Hunt a chance to claim the rushing title.

On his first and only carry of the game, he rushed for a 35-yard touchdown, passing both Bell and Gurley, giving Hunt the rushing yards title for the 2017 season with 1,327 yards.

He was ranked 33rd on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.

The Chiefs finished atop the AFC West with a 10–6 record and qualified for the playoffs.

In the Wild Card Round against the Tennessee Titans, Hunt rushed for 42 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries in the narrow 22–21 defeat.

Hunt remained the Chiefs' primary running back going into the 2018 season.

Hunt signed with the Cleveland Browns in 2019 and has played five seasons with them.

Hunt attended South High School in Willoughby, Ohio, where he played for the Rebels football team.

He rushed for 2,519 yards and 39 touchdowns as a junior and 2,685 yards and 44 touchdowns as a senior.

Hunt was rated by Rivals.com as a three-star recruit and committed to the University of Toledo to play college football.