Derrick Henry keeps turning Sundays into a record chase, and this week the Baltimore Ravens running back is closing in on another piece of NFL history.
Henry has 37 career games with multiple touchdowns, according to Polymarket Football, and one more would push him past Randy Moss for fourth place on the league’s all-time list. The only names still ahead of him would be Jerry Rice, LaDainian Tomlinson and Emmitt Smith.
That puts Henry in position to join a pretty exclusive club, but the next step won’t come easily. Baltimore is set to face the Cincinnati Bengals, a defense that has changed plenty in a year after adding Jonathan Allen, Dexter Lawrence and Bryan Cook.
Even with those additions, the Bengals still have work to do against the run. Cincinnati is allowing -0.03 EPA per rush, which ranks ninth-worst in the NFL. Clutch Points also noted that Lawrence and Allen have “combined for nine tackles for loss and 25 stops, defined as a play that results in positive EPA for the defense,”
The better news for Cincinnati has come through the air. “In fact, despite the additions on the defensive line, the pass defense is where the Bengals have been more effective. Cincinnati is allowing -0.11 EPA per pass allowed, which just sneaks into the NFL’s top 10 this season.”
So while the Bengals have made strides, Henry is still the kind of back who can wreck a game and add another line to his growing history book.
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