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How Did Derrick Henry Last Until the 2nd round

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san fran is better than green bay. the already proved it once, they SHOULD be able to do it again. only a fuckity fuckwad would think otherwise.
Well that's not the worst you've called me, so I'll take it. But playoffs are a different beast, seen it many times
 

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Rodgers is enough to counteract lafleur, although I do root for him personally same with vrabel. But I do agree. I'm a mahomes fan too in many levels, skill, personality etc so I'm cool with him despite Reid

I like Rodgers. What's not to like?
 

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I'll say because of conditioning
 

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I like Rodgers. What's not to like?
Hes a player that has had a million excuses , from him and the media. Hes been given a "pass" many times. couple that with his arrogance, and others appeal more to me.
 

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

The Eagles took Carson Wentz before Henry and Henry has more playoff Touchdowns thrown than Wentz, so who's the real winner?
 

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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.

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"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/sports/nfl/you-might-be-able-to-tackle-derrick-henry-but-youre-not-going-to-like-it/2020/01/16/9514d9e8-38ba-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html



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


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