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KEY NOTES • Lyvonia “Stump” Mitchell played running back in the NFL for 10 seasons and has coached in the NFL for 19 seasons. • Under Mitchell, five different backs — Ricky STAFF Watters (1999-00), Shaun Alexander (2001- 05), Clinton Portis (2008), David Johnson (2016) and Nick Chubb (2019-20) — gained 1,000 rushing yards in a season, while Andre Ellington produced 1,000 scrimmage yards in each of his first two NFL seasons (2013-14) and Kareem Hunt topped 1,000 scrimmage yards in 2020. stump • Helped his backs find the end zone as Alexander (five times), Johnson (twice) mitchell and Chubb (twice) produced 10 or more RUN GAME scrimmage touchdowns in a season PLAYERS COORDINATOR/RUNNING multiple times. Alexander set an NFL record BACKS with 28 scores in 2005 and Johnson led the league with 20 in 2016. THE CITADEL • In addition to numerous running backs, KINGSLAND, GA. Mitchell has also helped two fullbacks earn 20TH YEAR IN THE NFL 3RD YEAR WITH THE BROWNS Pro Bowl selections in Mack Strong and Mike Sellers. 1991 • Helped the Browns to one of the most San Antonio Rough Riders (WLAF), running prolific RB tandems in 2020 with Chubb backs coach (1,067 rushing yards and 12 rushing 1993-94 touchdowns) and Hunt (1,144 scrimmage Casa Grande High School (Ariz.), head yards and 11 total touchdowns). The pair 2020 SEASON coach were only NFL teammates to each record at 1995 least 840 rushing yards in 2020, including Morgan State University, offensive a win against Houston on Nov. 15, where coordinator Chubb (126) and Hunt (104) became the first 1996-98 Browns to each record 100-yards rushing in Morgan State University, head coach the same game since 1966. Chubb finished 1999-2007 the year second in yards per carry among Seattle Seahawks, running backs coach NFL RBs (5.6) and tied for fourth with 12 2008-09 rushing TDs, despite missing four games HISTORY Washington Redskins, assistant head due to injury and earned his second Pro coach/running backs Bowl selection. Hunt scored 11 regular 2010-12 season touchdowns, led the Browns with Southern University, head coach five receiving scores and recorded three 2013-16 rushing touchdowns during the postseason. Arizona Cardinals, running backs coach The Browns run game finished 2020 third in 2017-18 NFL in rush yards (2,374) as the team record New York Jets, running backs coach four games with at least 200 rushing yards, 2019- their most in a season since 1978. Cleveland Browns, run game coordinator/ • Helped Chubb record one of the best running backs coach seasons in Browns history in 2019. Chubb RECORDS finished second in the NFL with 1,494 1981-89 rushing yards, the fourth most by a Brown St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals, running back in a season, while accounting for 1,772 1991 scrimmage yards, the fifth most by a Brown. Kansas City Chiefs, running back Chubb registered seven 100-yard rushing games in 2019, the most by a Brown since 1968 and was voted a starter in his first career Pro Bowl. GAME DAY GAME 92 2021 MEDIA GUIDE MITCHELL CONTINUED STAFF PLAYERS 2020 SEASON STUMP MITCHELL • A ninth-round selection in the 1981 NFL • A four-year player and three-year starter Draft, played nine years with the Cardinals at running back for The Citadel, set school (1981-89) and one season with the Chiefs records for rushing yards in a season and (1991). Ranked in the top three in Cardinals for a career. As a senior in 1980, he finished history in rushing yards (second), rushing with the second-most rushing yards in the HISTORY average (second), kickoff return yards country and was named an All-American, (second) and punt return yards (third). Southern Conference Player of the Year and • Off the field, earned recognition as the South Carolina Amateur Athlete of the Year. Chuck Drulis Award winner for community service in 1982 and as the team’s Byron “Whizzer” White Humanitarian Award finalist in 1984 for his work in the community. RECORDS GAME DAY GAME 93 2021 MEDIA GUIDE.