Derrick Henry's chase to the all time rushing record

[Nash]

I always thought that the Henry had so many carries (395) his Heisman year at Bama that they purposely held him back to let him recover

[BTiger3733]

To get back to the intent of the thread, Henry could jump from #15 to #11 this week:

 

10) Tony Dorsett - 12,739

11) Jim Brown - 12,312

12) Marshall Faulk - 12,279

13) Edgerrin James - 12,246

14) Marcus Allen - 12,243

15) Derrick Henry - 12,230

 

[Bongo59]

I think he'll be top ten in December.  

[nine]

I haven’t watched Henry much at all this year;  from what little I’ve seen, he does appear  to have lost a bit off his fastball.     But I found this interesting:  

 

Henry is currently 3TDs away from his eighth consecutive season of 10+ rushing TDs
 

Unless I’m overlooking  someone, Henry is only the second player in NFL history to accomplish this.  HOF  Ladainian Tomlinson had nine consecutive 10+ TD seasons;  Adrian Peterson did it eight times in nine years but only seven were consecutive.   Many big name first-ballot HOF RBs never even came close.  
 

Just one more area where Henry’s accomplishments rank among the very best to ever play the game. 

[OILERMAN]

9 hours ago, BTiger3733 said:

To get back to the intent of the thread, Henry could jump from #15 to #11 this week:

 

10) Tony Dorsett - 12,739

11) Jim Brown - 12,312

12) Marshall Faulk - 12,279

13) Edgerrin James - 12,246

14) Marcus Allen - 12,243

15) Derrick Henry - 12,230

 

 

I'm interested to see if he can catch Marcus Allen 

[Callidus]

21 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

 

I'm interested to see if he can catch Marcus Allen 

2 yards a game would be impressive 

[rns90]

13 hours ago, OILERMAN said:

 

I'm interested to see if he can catch Marcus Allen 

Marcus Allen would have had more if Al basically used him more at the end of his Raiders tenure.

[OILERMAN]

9 hours ago, rns90 said:

Marcus Allen would have had more if Al basically used him more at the end of his Raiders tenure.

 

That's my kind of move. Bury him on the depth chart to try and ruin his career!.

 

If only I owned the Ravens!

[Bongo59]

Henry will be number one before he is done.  

[NashvilleNinja]

On 11/18/2025 at 8:41 AM, Nash said:

I always thought that the Henry had so many carries (395) his Heisman year at Bama that they purposely held him back to let him recover

 

I think that was part of it, but Murray looked pretty good that first year he was here too. The coaches were also stubborn and stayed with Murray far too long in 2017. On top of that Henry seemed to need an Eddie George heart to heart halfway through 2018 to get him going.

 

Henry basically spent nearly two years here as a backup. And outside of of the 2015 year with the 395 carries he didn't have a ton of wear on him then. He had less than half those carries in 2014 and had a whopping 35 carries in 2013.

 

From 2013-2018 he had 1,103 carries, an average of 183. Not a lot of tread off his tires from when he started playing college until he really started to take off in the pros. Combine that with his freakishly abnormal, sturdy physique and you've got a RB playing for as long as he has still putting up big time stats.

[CreepingDeath]

Currently #12 (just passed Marcus Allen, Edge James, and Marshall Faulk).  18 yards behind Jim Brown.  He will surpass him on Turkey day (vs Bengals, night game).  You boys ready for that glazing?  

 

#5 Rushing TDs (#15 all TDs).  A. Peterson and M. Allen are the next up with 5 and 8 ahead of the King.  

 

 

[titanruss]

On 11/18/2025 at 8:41 AM, Nash said:

I always thought that the Henry had so many carries (395) his Heisman year at Bama that they purposely held him back to let him recover

 

I think people coped that was the reason and it was fine because Murray was great. 

 

But he was still slow-played his second year while being statistically better in every efficiency category.  I think that Mularkey didnt know how to use him (and later admitted his mistake there). 

 

Vrabel didn't know either. Everyone says there was some magical change with Henry ... but pretty sure the stats show he'd been just as consistent when he wasnt playing. 

[Number9]

On 9/7/2025 at 7:46 PM, OILERMAN said:

Emmitt Smith is currently the all time leading rusher with 18,355 rushing yards.

 

Derrick Henry going into today had 11,423

 

18,355

11,423

 

6932 yards to go

 

I'll be tracking this race in this thread. I'm legitimately hoping he gets it at this point. 

 

Biggest lie ever told.^^^^

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/history/leaders/_/stat/rushlead

[Alcibiades]

Frank Gore had 16k yards?? Amazing. Remember his injury at Miami? Looked like he might never play again. Instead, he ends up an all-time rush yardage guy. Impressively long career. 

[Jamalisms]

Gore is the definition of a stat compiler.