Derrick Henry's chase to the all time rushing record

[titanruss]

Just now, Callidus said:

Playing henry was dumb to be fair. The running game was clicking without him. 

 

Oh no doubt. But on the scale of reasons why we lost, playing Henry is closer to the team chef not buying cereal bran with raisins than the obvious main reason.

[OzTitan]

An extremely inefficient running game for a team telegraphing every 1st down is profoundly negative.

[FireInTheHole]

33 minutes ago, titanruss said:

 

Oh no doubt. But on the scale of reasons why we lost, playing Henry is closer to the team chef not buying cereal bran with raisins than the obvious main reason.

Playing Henry and feeding him so much was a monumental reason the team lost. 

[titanruss]

5 hours ago, FireInTheHole said:

Playing Henry and feeding him so much was a monumental reason the team lost. 

 

nah, not in the same stratosphere as 3 god awful picks and nearly 3-4 more. 

[Callidus]

22 minutes ago, titanruss said:

 

nah, not in the same stratosphere as 3 god awful picks and nearly 3-4 more. 

Still only 1 god awful pick. 1 was excellent defense, the last 1 was at least partially his wr. 

[OILERMAN]

[titanruss]

7 hours ago, Callidus said:

Still only 1 god awful pick. 1 was excellent defense, the last 1 was at least partially his wr. 

totally disagree. It was 3 terrible picks - 1 where he didn't even look before throwing, 1 where the exact play was nearly picked before and he still threw it the same way, and one where he had other options that were clearly more open and to better players not blanketed with 3 defenders - he choked so bad he cried to a psychologist and his career never recovered....  but we've had plenty of discussion there. 
 

This thread should be about the atrocity that was Harbaugh last night. 

 

Henry with another 130 and 2 TDs. A dominant drive to take a strong lead where he couldn't be stopped... then the offense - yet again - going to a different (and worse) pass catching back with a QB that isnt great at throwing. The game promptly falling apart and Henry never seeing the field again. 
 

It's a coaching choke job similar to Tannehill playoff debacle. 

 

 

 

 

 

[CreepingDeath]

The game last night showed that Henry is clearly better than the other Ravens RBs.  It doesn't matter how much of a hard-on his backups give posters here.  The game also showed that Henry produced with a backup QB.

 

One day Henry will be done, but it wasn't week 16 of his 10th season.  

[Bongo59]

64 yards against GB and Derrick Henry is in the top ten of career rush yards in 10 years.  He'll pass Doresett as I predicted in this thread.  

[Bongo59]

He is already top 5 in rush TDs.  Dude is going to catch Emmitt. 

[reo]

There's no telling at this point. Big backs like Henry tend to fall off a cliff. And most teams don't have feature grind it out running games anymore w/ power backs so we'll see what happens.

 

He has a chance though.

[nine]

In his 10th season and approaching 32 years old, Henry is almost certain to once again finish the season ranking in the top 5 for almost every major rushing category.  
 

This will be what….7-8 years in a row?     Ridiculous.  

[CreepingDeath]

3 minutes ago, nine said:

This will be what….7-8 years in a row?     Ridiculous.  

Of Oman and crew being wrong, stubborn, and wrong some more?

[nine]

IMO,  the most single most amazing aspect of Henry is the fact that he consistently ranks among the NFL's very top rushers every single year....year in and year out, year after year after year after year.

 

This has been my opinion for some time...but then it occurred to me that I had no idea if the data actually supported this belief.    So to put it to the test and see how Henry stacks up against other top RBs, I made a list of the NFL's top 5 rushers for every season from 2000-2025, to see which players ranked in the top five most frequently.     This doesn't just examine how Henry compares to his contemporaries, but to every RB for the past 25 years.

 

From 2000-2025, here are all the RBs who ranked as a top-five rusher in  multiple seasons and how many times each player did it:

 

6 times:   Derrick Henry, Adrian Peterson

5 times:  Ladainian Tomlinson

4:   Jonathan Taylor, Saquon Barkley, Ezekiel Elliott, Marshawn Lynch, Clinton Portis, Edgerrin James

3:  David Johnson, Todd Gurley, Matt Forte, Steven Jackson, Michael Turner

2 times:    22 players

[titanruss]

56 minutes ago, nine said:

IMO,  the most single most amazing aspect of Henry is the fact that he consistently ranks among the NFL's very top rushers every single year....year in and year out, year after year after year after year.

 

This has been my opinion for some time...but then it occurred to me that I had no idea if the data actually supported this belief.    So to put it to the test and see how Henry stacks up against other top RBs, I made a list of the NFL's top 5 rushers for every season from 2000-2025, to see which players ranked in the top five most frequently.     This doesn't just examine how Henry compares to his contemporaries, but to every RB for the past 25 years.

 

From 2000-2025, here are all the RBs who had multiple seasons in the NFL's top five rushers and how many times each player did it:

 

6 times:   Derrick Henry, Adrian Peterson

5 times:  Ladainian Tomlinson

4:   Jonathan Taylor, Saquon Barkley, Ezekiel Elliott, Marshawn Lynch, Clinton Portis, Edgerrin James

3:  David Johnson, Todd Gurley, Matt Forte, Steven Jackson, Michael Turner

2 times:    22 players

 

He's def in the debate for the top RB the first 25 years of the 2000's

 

If Jonathan Taylor stays healthy (doubt it), he's got a chance to catch him. Well ahead yardage -wise at this point in their careers. 

Edited December 23, 2025 by titanruss