Like Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry keeps on achieving unprecedented milestones. Until Saturday, no NFL player has ever attained three seasons with 1,500 rushing yards and 15+ rushing touchdowns.
Saturday was Henry’s 31st birthday, and he celebrated by carrying 20 times for 138 yards (nearly seven yards per rush) and two touchdowns. That gave him 1,921 rushing yards and 16 rushing TDs on the season.
Had he accumulated 79 more rushing yards, he would have become the first man to accomplish a 2,000-yard rushing season twice.
“On his birthday, and I’m looking at the jumbotron and they’re saying he broke the record for this, and he broke the record for that,” Lamar Jackson said in the postgame sideline interview for the television broadcast.
“Man King Henry just breaking records, but I feel like he do that week in, week out, though.”
The 2024 regular season saw The King live up to all the off-season hype that accompanied his free-agent signing and then some.
Now, Henry will look to ride the positive momentum of a record-setting regular season into next weekend’s Wild Card game at home against either the archrival Pittsburgh Steelers or the L.A. Chargers, which would be the Harbaugh Bowl or Harbowl 4.
With yesterday’s win, the Ravens clinched the AFC North division title and secured the #3 seed in the AFC.