Derrick Henry left Atlanta with more than a comeback win on Sunday night. He also left with a memory he had been waiting to cash in.
After the Baltimore Ravens knocked off the Atlanta Falcons 30-23 in overtime, Henry brought up a prediction he had saved and made sure one reporter knew he had noticed it. The running back said, “I saw a post on Instagram [from the] Baltimore Sun,” Henry said after the game.
“There was not a lot of y’all picking us to win, too, and you [were] one of them. I couldn’t wait for this moment.”
The moment had a playful edge, but it came after Baltimore had already done the hard part. The Ravens rallied without starting quarterback Lamar Jackson, erased a late deficit and tied the game with 40 seconds left in regulation before taking their first lead in overtime.
Henry played a key role in that turnaround. He took a direct snap and powered in the two-point conversion that made it 23-23, forcing the extra period.
The reporter Henry named, Jonas Shaffer, quickly said he had actually picked Baltimore. Henry accepted the correction and explained he had held back because he wasn’t sure who had made the prediction.
That turned the exchange from a broad shot at the media into something more specific: a simple, good-natured reminder that he had kept the screenshot and remembered the doubt attached to it. Henry said he planned to go back and look at the post he had saved.
Baltimore still had to finish the job after Henry’s big moment. The Ravens were down eight late in the fourth quarter before Tyler Huntley led a six-play, 71-yard touchdown drive. Huntley later scored the go-ahead touchdown in overtime, and safety Kyle Hamilton sealed the win with an interception of Tua Tagovailoa.
Henry said the outside picks against Baltimore weren’t really his focus anyway. When asked whether proving critics wrong was a motivator, he pointed to something closer to home: winning for his teammates and the organization.
Even so, the postgame back-and-forth gave the Ravens’ rally an extra layer. They escaped with a dramatic road win, Henry got his receipt moment, and the screenshot lived to see another day.
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