It appears Canadian Chuba Hubbard’s breakout 2024 season is over.
ESPN reports that the Carolina Panthers are putting the star running back on season-ending injured reserve with calf and knee injuries.
Carolina (4-11) faces the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-7) on Sunday.
Hubbard, 25, of Sherwood Park, Alta., has run for a career-high 1,195 yards (4.8-yard average) this season, becoming just the second Canadian to break the 1,000-yard rushing threshold in an NFL campaign.
Rueben Mayes, of North Battleford, Sask., was the first in 1986 when he recorded a career-high 1,353 yards as a rookie with the New Orleans Saints.
That total also stands as a single-season rushing high for a Canadian playing in the NFL.
The six-foot-one, 210-pound Hubbard, currently sixth among NFL rushers, needed 159 yards over Carolina’s final two games to surpass Mayes’s …