Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry is set to face the Tennessee Titans for the first time as a member of the Ravens in Week 4. So I think it’s appropriate to bring up the 22 craziest Derrick Henry stats and facts for No. 22, Derrick “The King” Henry.

Week 4’s Titans-Derrick Henry reunion marks just the fourth time in NFL history where a player with 9,000 rushing yards and 90 rushing touchdowns for one franchise has played against that franchise (Emmitt Smith, LaDainian Tomlinson, and Adrian Peterson).

These stats/facts aren’t ranked. They’re just bullet points of the things Henry has accomplished across high school, college, and the NFL that are truly unbelievable.

Henry is currently ninth in NFL history in career rushing yards after passing Eric Dickerson this past week. He needs fewer than 800 yards to pass Curtis Martin for the sixth-most rushing yards in league history. Adrian Peterson is the tougher climb. Peterson sits at 14,918 career yards, and Henry is at 13,319. That’s 1,599 more yards, which means Henry would need a third 1,900-yard season to get there, after having 301 in three games this season.

Would I bet against him? No. Let’s get to it.

Derrick Henry’s high school numbers look made up

• 1. Henry is the only player to ever rush for 2,000 or more yards in a season in high school, in college, and in the NFL. He ran for 4,261 yards as a senior at Yulee High School, 2,219 yards at Alabama in 2015, and 2,027 yards with the Titans in 2020. 
• 2. He rushed for 12,124 yards in high school. That’s the national high school career record, and he averaged 252.6 rushing yards per game over four years. 
• 3. As a senior, Henry rushed for 4,261 yards and 55 touchdowns in 13 games. That’s more than 300 yards per game. 
• 4. His lowest single-season total in high school was 2,465 yards as a freshman. That freshman number is a good high school CAREER for normal human beings. 
• 5. He scored 153 rushing touchdowns in high school, an average of 3.19 per game.

Alabama’s Heisman winner broke the SEC record book

• 6. Henry broke Herschel Walker’s SEC single-season rushing record with 2,219 yards in 2015. It was both an Alabama and SEC record at the time. 
• 7. He also broke the SEC single-season rushing touchdown record with 28. The previous record of 23 was shared by quarterback Tim Tebow and Auburn running back Tre Mason. 
• 8. Henry finished his college career with a rushing touchdown in 20 consecutive games, the longest streak in SEC history at the time. 
• 9. Of his 2015 rushing yards at Alabama, 70% came after contact. He averaged 102.8 yards after contact per game. That’s crazy. 
• 10. During his Heisman Trophy season, the Crimson Tide played nine ranked opponents. Henry averaged 166 yards per game against them.

Derrick Henry in the NFL: King Henry’s reign keeps going

• 11. Henry owns a 99-yard touchdown run, tied for the longest play possible in the NFL. It came during his Thursday Night Football destruction of the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2018, when he ran for 238 yards and four touchdowns. 
• 12. He has seven 200-yard rushing games, the most in NFL history. 
• 13. To build on that, Henry scored at least two rushing touchdowns in all seven of those 200-yard games. He’s actually the only player in NFL history to have four 200-yard, two rushing TD games. 
• 14. He rushed for 2,027 yards in 2020 despite playing only 16 games, carrying the ball 378 times. 
• 15. Henry nearly matched that pace the very next year. He had 937 yards and 10 touchdowns in only eight games before breaking his foot in 2021. That’s a 17-game pace of 1,991 yards and 21 touchdowns. And we all know Henry always started slow before “DeHenber” rolled around. . . he likely gets to 2,000 again if the foot holds up. 
• 16. He got MORE productive after turning 30. His first two seasons in Baltimore produced 3,516 rushing yards and 32 rushing touchdowns at ages 30 and 31. 
• 17. At age 30, Henry ran for 1,921 yards at 5.9 yards per carry. That’s 381 more yards than his 2019 rushing title season, five years earlier. 
• 18. He’s the only player in NFL history with two seasons of 1,900 or more rushing yards. 
• 19. Henry scored at least five rushing touchdowns in each of his first 10 seasons. Only two other players in league history have done that through their first 10 seasons. 
• 20. Among the 42 players in NFL history with 2,000 or more carries through 2025, Henry’s 4.9 career yards per carry ranks third behind Jim Brown and Barry Sanders. 
• 21. His first four playoff games produced 561 rushing yards, the most by any player through his first four postseason games in the Super Bowl era. 
• 22. Henry is the only player in NFL history with two 180-yard rushing games in the same postseason. He did it back-to-back in the 2019 playoffs with 182 yards against the Patriots and 195 against the Ravens, both on the road.

Now he returns to face the Titans in his new home of Baltimore as the ninth all-time leading rusher and third all-time in rushing touchdowns with 128. Through three games, he already has six touchdowns and 301 yards.

Bonus Derrick Henry facts (because 22 isn’t enough)

Henry broke Emmitt Smith’s Florida high school career rushing record. Smith finished with 8,804 yards. Henry finished with 12,124.

Smith has said he thinks Henry has a chance to break his NFL career rushing record, too. That one’s a long way off. Smith’s total of 18,355 yards is roughly 5,000 yards ahead of Henry, which works out to three to five more seasons after this one. But Henry keeps defying the odds, so who’s going to tell him no?

One more from that 2019 playoff run. Henry ripped off a 66-yard run in Baltimore and was clocked at 20.7 miles per hour while listed at 247 pounds (and he was likely heavier than that). He also threw a touchdown pass in that same game.

Derrick Henry is a unique, one-of-one, first-ballot Hall of Famer. The guy is insane. Ironically, the Tennessee Titans are the only NFL team Henry hasn’t been a part of a win against in his career. Now he has the chance to join names like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Drew Brees to have wins over 32 NFL franchises.