2025 Pre-Season Rank #11, 2024 Pre-Season Rank #23, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #39, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #47, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #70, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #108. Peak Period: 2019-20/2022-24
The Running Back is dead. Long live the Running Back.
When many football fans and journalists called the death of rushing, Derrick Henry (and Saquon Barkley) had other ideas, but we have been surpised by Henry before
In 2019, it felt like Derrick Henry won the Rushing Title out of nowhere, as he was in his fourth year, and he only had 1,059 Yards the year before. In 2020, Henry won his second Rushing Title, shattering his previous mark, and joined the 2,000 Yard Rushing club, won the Offensive Player of the Year. Had he not gotten injured during the 2021 season, Henry was on his way to his second straight OPOY. After a bounce back in 2022 that saw him net his third 1,500-yard campaign.
After one more year in Tennessee, it was clear that the Titans were looking to move on, and the Baltimore Ravens signed Henry to join their potent offense. In his first season in Baltimore, Henry rushed for 1,921 Yards and led the league in Rushing Touchdowns (16). Last season, Henry was electric again, with 1,595 more Rushing Yards and 16 more TDs. His work in Baltimore has been phenomenal, and he is now over 13,000 Yards on the ground and an astonishing 122. Is Emmitt Smith’s 164 in reach?
Whatever happens forward, it was his first two seasons in Baltimore that sealed the Canton deal.
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