{"id":187454,"date":"2025-10-03T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187454\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:22:08","slug":"source-panthers-rb-hubbard-not-expected-to-play-vs-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187454\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Panthers RB Hubbard not expected to play vs. Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David NewtonOct 3, 2025, 09:08 AM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>David Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Carolina Panthers. Newton began covering Carolina in 1995 and came to ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter before joining NFL Nation in 2013.<\/p>\n

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers<\/a> running back Chuba Hubbard<\/a> is not expected to play Sunday against the Miami Dolphins<\/a> due to a calf injury that has kept him out of practice the past two days, a league source confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n

Hubbard leads the Panthers in rushing with 217 yards on 53 carries coming off a 2024 season in which he rushed for 1,195 yards and 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Former Dallas Cowboys<\/a> back Rico Dowdle<\/a>, signed during the offseason to a one-year, $3 million deal with the potential to get to $6.5 million, would get the start.<\/p>\n

Dowdle has 83 yards on 28 carries as Hubbard’s backup. He had a career-high 1,079 yards rushing last year for Dallas.<\/p>\n

“Just making the most of the opportunity, that’s going to be the main thing, doing what I can to help the team,” Dowdle said Thursday amid speculation Hubbard would not play.<\/p>\n

Rookie Trevor Etienne<\/a>, who has 37 yards on eight carries while being used mostly as a return specialist, would be the likely backup.<\/p>\n

Hubbard signed a four-year, $33.2 million deal late last season. He got off to a slow start this season and was limited last week with the calf injury that held him to 10 carries for 49 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David NewtonOct 3, 2025, 09:08 AM ET CloseDavid Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-187454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}