Nick Chubb rushed for 2,720 yards, 9.6 yards per carry and 39 touchdowns during his senior season at Cedartown High School.Cedartown High School football coach Scott Hendrix has a favorite Nick Chubb story, and it does not involve any carries or yards by the talented tailback.
Instead, it deals with Chubb’s relationship-building ability he displayed last May.
“I was giving out equipment to our ninth-graders,” Hendrix recalled this past week. “I didn’t know he had done this until later, but he goes in there with all those ninth-graders and shows them how to put their stuff up and how to put their chinstraps on and how we do things here. Sometimes your older kids try to bully kids around, but he’s in there helping those kids on his own and showing those kids that he’s there for them.”
Chubb was always there for his teammates on the field, as the 5-foot-11, 220-pounder followed a junior season in which he ran for 2,696 yards and 38 touchdowns with a senior year that included 2,720 rushing yards and 39 scores. He rocketed to top-50 national status after his junior year and committed to Georgia last June.
So why did he take it on his own to acclimate the ninth-graders?