Chuba Hubbard wasn’t thinking about it when some of his Carolina Panthers teammates came up to him after their loss to the visiting Philadelphia Eagles a little more than two weeks ago.
The starting running back for the National Football League club had rushed for 92 yards in the 22-16 decision – and passed a mark not just significant in annual statistical terms but in historical terms.
Hubbard has reached 1,000 yards rushing in the 2024 NFL campaign, not only to join a handful of others near the top of the league stats sheet but also to become just the second Canadian to reach the milestone in a season.
“(They) were like, ‘I think we got 1,000,’ and we went and checked and saw that we did,” Hubbard told CTV News Edmonton last week. “We were all excited in the locker room after so it was a great achievement for …