Kareem Hunt signs with Browns

The Cleveland Browns marked pained running back Kareem Hunt on Monday.

A source revealed to ESPN's Adam Schefter that Hunt marked a one-year contract. He will be a limited free specialist after the agreement terminates, which means the Browns will control his rights after next season.

The Kansas City Chiefs discharged Hunt in November after a video surfaced that indicated him pushing and kicking a lady last February at his living arrangement in Cleveland.

He nor was captured nor dealt with indictments for the February episode. He likewise was blamed for punching a man in June.

The NFL set Hunt on the official's excluded rundown in the blink of an eye before he was discharged. He isn't qualified to play until the NFL finishes its examination concerning the episodes and a choice on potential order is made.

A source near the circumstance told ESPN's Dan Graziano that the order procedure was "all the while continuous and not even close to done." A source revealed to Graziano that Hunt met with NFL agents in January as a major aspect of the procedure.

Chase, since he has marked, will again be put on the magistrate's excluded rundown until the NFL settles on a ultimate conclusion on order.

Tans general supervisor John Dorsey drafted Hunt for the Chiefs in 2017, when Dorsey was the group's GM.

"I need everyone to realize we have done broad research concerning this case, this player," Dorsey told journalists amid media accessibility Monday. "He comprehends and assumes full liability for the deplorable demonstration he submitted. He is amazingly repentant for his activities."

Dorsey said he conversed with numerous individuals about Hunt, yet did not converse with the lady, nor did he converse with gatherings that bargain with abusive behavior at home or viciousness against ladies. He said he didn't contact the lady.

Chase, 23, apologized to the lady in the February episode, the Chiefs association and his family in a meeting with ESPN after his discharge.

He was sorry again in a Browns articulation on Monday.

"For one thing, I might want to by and by apologize for my activities a year ago. What I did wasn't right and indefensible. That isn't the man I was raised to be, and I've taken in a lot from that experience and surely ought to have been progressively honest about it afterward. I'm very appreciative that John Dorsey, Dee and Jimmy Haslam and the Cleveland Browns association are allowing me the chance to gain their trust and speak to their association in the most ideal path conceivable on and off the field," he said.

"I am focused on following the fundamental strides to learn and to be a superior and more beneficial individual from this circumstance. I likewise comprehend the desires that the Browns have unmistakably spread out and that I need to acquire my way back to the NFL. I'm a work in advancement as an individual, however I'm focused on exploiting the emotionally supportive networks that I have set up to end up the best and more advantageous adaptation of myself."

Dorsey said Hunt deliberately started advising not long after he was discharged by the Chiefs and "is presently progressing in the direction of being a superior man going ahead."

He included that Hunt's marking is "in no way, shape or form ... an assurance of anything. As we as a whole know, trust must be earned. That must be earned with the Cleveland Browns association and the network of Cleveland pushing ahead. This will be an everyday thing with winning trust."

Inquired as to whether the Browns would have a zero resistance approach concerning Hunt, Dorsey answered, "You realize what, I'll state yes."

Dorsey said he anticipates that the NFL's examination should envelop with two or three weeks and he trusts Hunt is available April 1 for the beginning of offseason exercises.

Chase drove the NFL in surging in 2017 as a new kid on the block with 1,327 yards and eight touchdowns in helping Kansas City meet all requirements for the playoffs. He likewise had 53 gatherings for 455 yards and three touchdowns. Last season, he scrambled for 824 yards and seven touchdowns in 11 recreations and had seven getting touchdowns before he was discharged.

"I know this, in the event that you conversed with anyone who's been in the locker live with Kareem Hunt, they'll reveal to you he was a great partner," Dorsey later told a bunch of beat correspondents.

Chase's marking is somewhat of an unexpected given the Browns have a skilled corps of backs. Scratch Chubb kept running for 996 yards in nine begins as a new kid on the block, and found the middle value of 5.2 yards per convey. The group likewise has Duke Johnson, who is a practiced difference in pace back and beneficiary out of the backfield. Johnson additionally arrived at the midpoint of 5 yards for each convey (on 40 conveys) in 2018, and in 2017 had 1,041 all out yards and seven touchdowns. The Browns marked Johnson to a three-year, $15.6 million contract last June. He is under contract with the Browns through the 2021 season.

ESPN's Pat McManamon contributed to this report.