Is Derrick Henry the best RB you ever seen?

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South Paw said:
Shaun got hurt that year too and it was never the same

Emmit def way better than Shaun but hes also a rb that benfited from being behind an elite oline if we been 100
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sure, but Emmitt was also a lot more talented AND had the unparalleled longevity.

like @mastermind said, Alexander was a great player and that mvp was deserved, but a lot of his production was more of his line doing work.

Henry also doesnt just have great produciton. Hes carrying the team on his back, enabling PA for his QB and he's doing it violently as fukk, trucking people and scoring long ass TDs. I'll admit people always will gravitate to a RB who bulldozes and trucks dudes over a finesse RB, unless its Marshall Faulk or Barry
 
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yseJ said:
sure, but Emmitt was also a lot more talented AND had the unparalleled longevity.

like @mastermind said, Alexander was a great player and that mvp was deserved, but a lot of his production was more of his line doing work.
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no doubt and holmgren was great at putting an offense together. but he gets shyt on for being trash. the numbers he put up for 3 or 4 years in his prime were :wow:
 
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South Paw said:
no doubt and holmgren was great at putting an offense together. but he gets shyt on for being trash. the numbers he put up for 3 or 4 years in his prime were :wow:
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its cuz dudes are in that binary mindset. shaun alexander wasnt trash. you cant be trash if you get allpro mvp and multiple pro bowl appearances in the nfl.
 
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Piff Perkins said:
Of course not. But he's amazing and the best RB currently on a roster now, by far IMO. He gets better as the season progresses too, which is crazy. By playoff time he's gonna be even more unstoppable. Titans made the right move to beef up their offense but it prob isn't enough to stop KC right?
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I mean they couldve won that ACF championship game. They werent that far off. And whoever won that was going to win the SB.

So derrick henry is really just ome bad half turning into a good half away from a ring
 
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On topic, I'll say this. Yall can keep a different energy for Mahomes and rationalize it away, all I know is we are now entering a zone where its appropriate to rate Henry with All-Timers...

In his last 30 games, going back to Wk14, 2018, he's run for 3,382 yards (an average of 112.7 yards per game), 5.24 ypc on 646 attempts with just 5 fumbles (0 in 2020!!), 37 total TDs (35 rushing)...

In 30 games, thats a current Per 16 of 345-1804-19. In 30 games, thats three 200-yard games, 12 multi-touchdown games....

Wk14 2018 is significant as that was his coming out party and the moment Tennessee officially gave him the keys to the offense...

For all of you saying pump the brakes, I know for me I haven't researched it, but this is as prolific a 30-game run as I can remember. Should also be mentioned that he's won playoff games strictly on his back for Tennessee ('17 and '19), and Tennessee is 20-10 (.667, equivalent of 10.6 wins/year) in this stretch since they made him The Face, whereas in his first 2.75 seasons they were using him wrong, we were 14-19 (.424)...

He's the rare RB whose performance directly and obviously correlates to W's. 30 games, almost two full seasons----->at the very least for you "pump the brakes" types, he can be compared to most prolific 2-year runs ever. Pick anybody, im pretty sure the list of who is comparable is short...

Amazing how this "wait and see" and "hell no" approach isn't used with Mahomes. Literally amazing, and Henry is on a 2-year binge destroying defenses with no letup...
 
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mastermind said:
He was great during his Colt years, but those were trash teams. Faulk made three all-pro teams in Indy.
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He was good, not great. He was what...8 TDs, 75 yds per game. He wasnt doing anything special. My mans Curtis Martin was better then. And Edgerrin came in and did the same exact thing. Some might even say better.
 
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nieman said:
He was good, not great. He was what...8 TDs, 75 yds per game. He wasnt doing anything special. My mans Curtis Martin was better then. And Edgerrin came in and did the same exact thing. Some might even say better.
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He made three second-team all-pro teams in Indy. Faulk was great in Indy, but that team sucked, which is why they were able to get Peyton in the first place with the number one pick. It's not the best barometer, but look at who Faulk compares to on Pro Football Stats after five years, its the best RBs of all time. In 1998, he lead the NFL in yards from scrimmage.

Edge was obviously a beast, but he came into a more talented team and stable organization than what Faulk had.
 
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