Derrick Henry made major progress on his path to the Hall of Fame during Ravens' playoff win over Steelers
Derrick Henry's first playoff game with the Baltimore Ravens went exactly as the Charm City hoped it would. King Henry blazed past the Pittsburgh Steelers for 186 yards and two touchdowns on 26 total carries in a game that allowed you to forget that Zay Flowers didn't even play. Posting those numbers in a postseason […]
Derrick Henry's first playoff game with the Baltimore Ravens went exactly as the Charm City hoped it would. King Henry blazed past the Pittsburgh Steelers for 186 yards and two touchdowns on 26 total carries in a game that allowed you to forget that Zay Flowers didn't even play.
Posting those numbers in a postseason game would be a career highlight for 99% of running backs in the history of the sport. It's just a footnote in Henry's (still in progress) legendary resume.
Henry now has the most playoff games with at least 180 rushing yards in NFL history.
Henry entered the night with 732 rushing yards in just seven career postseason games, ahead of immortal names such as Walter Payton, Jerome Bettis, and Eric Dickerson to name a few. He ranked 17th on that leaderboard when the game began. He left the game ranked ninth.
That's right. Henry upping his career postseason rushing yardage total to 918 puts him in the top 10. He jumped Larry Csonka (891), Edgerrin James (852), and even former Ravens running back Ray Rice (750) in the process.
Those are some Hall of Fame names. The only top-10 backs not enshrined in Canton are Marshawn Lynch and Chuck Foreman. Lynch has only had one year of eligibility, and Foreman was pushed down to No. 11 by Henry Saturday night. The 31-year old shouted out the guys in front of him for his magnificent outing.
"I think it's just the guys in front of us blocking," Henry said after the game. "The unselfishness, the will, the want to. Helluva job on the offensive line, and made our job much easier today by blocking. We just had to go out there, get north to south, and get the most out of the play."
Henry should have an opportunity to climb even higher in the all-time rankings this month. He needs 53 yards to pass Lynch for the No. 8 spot, 79 to pass John Riggins for No. 7, and 223 to pass Terrell Davis for No. 6.
He can easily get there with two more games, but Henry and everyone in Baltimore are eyeing to play one more on top of that.
"This is step one," Henry said. "This is the first one. We're gonna enjoy this one and then get back to work. But yeah, a great win, but we got three more."
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