How Did Derrick Henry Last Until the 2nd round

[megalodon30]

Phillip Lindsay is a generational talent.

 

[kburjr]

Where running backs have been drafted since the draft started

NFL.com Draft 2018 - NFL Draft History: Full Draft Year

Fuck NFL.com link leads to game pass Sorry

Use this link

https://www.pro-football-reference....s[]=RB&college_id=all&conference=any&show=all

 

[huskers1217]

Broncos took Paxton Lynch ahead of Henry in the 2016 draft. How useful is he?

Broncos needed a QB desperately at the time and they had CJ Anderson. no need for Henry

 

[redseat]

Phillip Lindsay is a generational talent. All you haters just don't understand until the Broncos upgrade their OL.

I can't even read this.... So it must be good

 

[shopson67]

Not to say that Henry is not on a hot streak and the Titans should ride him as much as they can, but Henry has been in the league for 4 seasons now and has less than 4,000 yards rushing. Not exactly superstar stats.

...and he has a lot of mileage on him already for his age, with a punishing running style.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

I guess folks forgot LeGarrette Blount.

 

[megalodon30]

I guess folks forgot LeGarrette Blount.

Came into the league undrafted and never had more than 300 yards in any season.

 

[shopson67]

Came into the league undrafted and never had more than 300 yards in any season.

Definition of a touchdown vulture.

 

[megalodon30]

Definition of a touchdown vulture.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Came into the league undrafted and never had more than 300 yards in any season.

Undrafted yes, but never over 300 yards??? Not likely.

Big back who was fast and could run over folks. Got some SB rings to prove it too.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Definition of a touchdown vulture.

Just TD me Marge.

 

[molsaniceman]

I guess folks forgot LeGarrette Blount.

blount force trauma

 

[megalodon30]

Undrafted yes, but never over 300 yards??? Not likely.

Big back who was fast and could run over folks. Got some SB rings to prove it too.

Never had more than 300 carries in a season. Read the stats wrong.



That's my bad.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Never had more than 300 carries in a season. Read the stats wrong.



That's my bad.

299 punishing carries is better than 400 la dee da carries.....

I remember one TD where I'm pretty sure it was Vrabel, started clapping right after his first move because you knew he was gone.

I love big backs with speed.

 

[The Q]

I'm going to be completely insufferable if Chiefs RB's get more yardage than Henry on Sunday, tbh.

you should be.

 

[Ojb81]

I'm going to be completely insufferable if Chiefs RB's get more yardage than Henry on Sunday, tbh.

 

[Sgt. Schultz]

Because everyone fucked up except the Titans...

 

[SteelersPride]

How did until the end of last year Derrick henry under perform, and was regarded as a semi bust.

don't forget they brought in demarco Murray over him. And they paid up the epic failure of dion Lewis. Until late last year he wAsnt even getting the work, and wasn't performing.

Because everyone fucked up except the Titans...

See above

 

[ATL96Steeler]

The guy won the Heisman, looks like The Hulk and Groot had a baby, runs a 4.5, yet went 45th overall in the draft. How does this happen? I mean, the analysis of Derrick Henry's NFL upside is hardly difficult--"Big man fast. Give man rock. Man runs hard." NFL talent evaluation is fascinating.

"Former Michigan State defensive coordinator Harlan Barnett, whose team faced Henry in the 2015 college football playoffs described it this way: “You get tired of hitting that big back,” he said. “Boom. Again. Here he comes again. Boom. Again and again and again. And so you have to have the mental toughness to be able to say: ‘Hold on. We’re going to hold up, and we’re going to keep smacking him. Keep hitting him.’”

That’s if you can get your hands on him. Compounding his weightiness and his speed — 4.5 seconds in the 40-meter dash — is his ability to cutback and make defenders miss in space. And as if those traits weren’t enough to deal with, there is his long stride. At 6-foot-3, he literally eat up the yard lines like his legs are hungry for dirt.

Someone at Alabama once measured that stride. In full lope, Henry covers 7.5 feet per step. Think about that for a second: That’s two and half yards per stride. It’s 10 yards in just four steps. “If we can get him into his fourth or fifth step, we feel very confident in his ability and our ability to gain meaningful yards,” Vrabel said. And once he breaks a tackle, he’s gone. On 23 occasions this season he's burst upfield for 15 yards or longer, most in the league.

“He doesn’t get caught much,” Patriots Coach Bill Belichick observed."


Finally, there is Henry’s capacity for a daunting workload. He’s carried the ball 96 times in his past three games, a scarcely believable rate in this era of balance offense. But for him, it’s normal. Back in high school in Yulee, Florida, he regularly carried 40 or more times a game, and the trend continued at Alabama.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...14d9e8-38ba-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html



NFL Draft 2016: The 44 players somehow chosen before Derrick Henry

Considering only one RB was taken in the 1st round in that draft...and nearly half of the teams passed him again in the second rd, I would say need had to be one reason.

 

[kburjr]

Henry was the 2nd back taken in that draft. Zeke went #4. Priorities.