Games with Names - Dudes on Derrick Henry

Episode Date: April 18, 2026

We're covering Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry! Gronk, and Julian Edelman discuss what makes King Henry so great and some of their favorite stories.Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Julian Edelman and we're bringing you one of our favorite segments from the show talking about one of our favorite dudes in the NFL. Let's go. University of Alabama. Another Alabama. Road tied, crimson tide. Currently plays for the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore Freaking Ravens. It is currently in talks of winning the MVP.

Probably offensive player of the year. They don't give that to running backs. It's currently going to be on the best rushing team statistically. Right? Statistically. In NFL history with Lamar Jackson. Are they on pace? They got it.

They got to be on pace. Derek freaking. Number 22. Henry. The Baltimore Ravens. Let's get to the synopsis. AI. Derek Henry, standing at 6'43 inches and weighing 247 pounds is a dominant NFL running back,

renowned for his rare combination of size, speed, and power, making him one of the most feared rushers in the league. He has amassed over 10,000 rushing yards and 98 touchdowns in his career, earning multiple Pro Bowl selections and the 2020 NFL Offensive Player of the Year award. In high school, Derek set the national record for career rushing yards.

It was an astonishing 12,12,124 yards at U. Lee High School in Florida averaging 250 yards per game. See, I got to read really fast because he has so many stats, I want to make sure we get through it. At the University of Alabama, Henry won the Heisman trophy

and set both the single season and career rushing records. I mean, this guy breaks every record at whatever level he's at. I wonder what the Pop Warner stats were. We can't get there because it's just, we'll take way to it. He's got it all, though.

While he spent most of his career with the Tennessee tight-ins, setting the single-season rushing records record with 2027 yards in 2020. He is currently, he beat Chris Johnson 2K with that number right there. Jesus. He is currently setting impressive records with the Baltimore Ravens, including the team's franchise record and most rushing touchdowns in a single season already. And it's only like not even halfway through, you know, this season. Henry is celebrated for his work ethic and humble personality off the field,

where he is involved in charity work. and is regarded as a role model. Start that clock. Start the clock. First off, I want to get to this right off the point. His nickname is King Henry. There's a guy in basketball that we all know him, know him as is King James.

Who is the ultimate King, Jules? King Henry or King James? Let's hear your thoughts. King Henry or King James? LeBron is a generational guy, but if he's talk about King Henry, he's a generational guy. This guy, 247 pounds running away from people.

That is such a hard question. I didn't even know you're going to ask me that. I'm going, I'm a football guy. I got to go King Henry. It sounds better. Was there King James back in the day? It's probably King James back in the day, isn't it? Is that why it's King?

I just put that together. They both have kind of kingy names. They got both kingy names. I like King Henry. I'm going King Henry. just unnamed because it sounds, but there's a King James back there. I'm going with Derek Henry. All right.

I like that pick. And what's incredible about, you know, Derek Henry is, you know, you said that size is just impressive and how he can move, what, 247 pounds? But I swear, he looks huge. He looks massive. He's 247, but I swear he plays and looks bigger than he even is. 100%. It's like he's 6.3, 247. It's like, no, no, no.

he's like 6-6-2-80 running the ball. That's what it looks like. I remember when we played against him, I walked by him after the game. Like, who the fuck is his defensive end? Oh, my God. That's Henry? That's Jesus, he's so big.

I wouldn't want to tackle him. No one wants to tackle him. I mean, screw at the, they say at the end of the game, I'm not tackling him in the beginning of the game. You might get a concussion, getting one of the knee drives. He looks like a goddamn semi-truck that's on fucking Noss.

He is a semi-truck. On Noss. Yes. That's race fuel. That's what he is. He's a semi-truck. Like, when he sees that hole open, like he hits that button. He presses Noss.

Fast and furious. Fast and furious. Go, baby, go. And then he just flies right through the hole. I think he was what, so far, he clicked in as the second fastest player as a ball carrier in the NFL this year. Recorded. Recorded. second fastest player. I mean,

freaking ridiculous being that size. What I love about him, too, man. He's a true role model, man. He's never gets in trouble. Never. Never on the field. Never off the field. Is he in trouble? He doesn't smoke. He doesn't drink.

He eats completely clean. He's basically on the Tom Brady diet. I think he's a vegan. I think he's vegan. He might be vegan. I'm not sure about that. He possibly could be. I mean, no gluten, you know, he cuts the sugar down. It's all real.

sugar and fruits and all that good stuff. He takes care of his body, does the cryotanks, sonnas. He actually goes to the same treatment guy that I see as well. My friend Bobo, who's out of Nashville, he gets those vitamin bags and hydration bags to make sure that he's always good to go, you know, on top of his games. He's always burning fuel, so he's got to always make sure the vitamins and fuel are always coming in. He's just doing everything right.

And that's what I love about him. He's a great example to the young generation. Have you seen his off-season workouts on YouTube? Yeah, and I've actually worked out with him before. What? One time in Dallas, Texas. Yes, let me tell you, man, this guy don't get tired. He don't get tired.

What'd you guys do for a workout? And, like, I was with my brother, my two brothers, and, like, we were just looking at his arms. And, like, his arm was bigger than all three of our arms combined. That's why I don't understand how he doesn't weigh, like, 280 pounds. Like, I weigh 260, and he's 12 pounds less than me. And I'm like, but your arms are three times the size of me. mind. Like I don't like I think he's tricking everyone. I think he really is 280, but you know in Pop Warner when they don't let you play because you're overweight. Yeah. I don't think the NFL

would let him play if he weighs in at 280 at the running back position. So I think he literally is 280 because he's that big, but they just list him as 247. So he's actually qualified to play in the NFL. Dude. Yeah. So you you're working out with what year was this? This was a I think last year, About a year and a half ago. Two years ago, the first thing you look at you say, damn, his arm's so big. And you're Rob Grunkowski. It's the first thing I said. I was memorized.

And what's another thing about him, too? Like he's having this career year with the Baltimore Ravens. It looks like he hasn't aged. Yeah, he hasn't aged because like I said, he does everything right. And when you do everything right and take care of your body like that, you don't age. He hasn't lost a step and he's just getting faster and faster, bigger and bigger. He has that motivation still. Like he's 30 years old as a running back.

He's taken so many shots to the body. And I feel like just, I just feel it. Like he has a chip because like I feel like the Tennessee Titans, you know, kind of didn't give him that respect that he deserved last year, you know? Like they were like, oh, we got to change up our offense. All we do is give the ball to Derek Henry. Like they let Derek Henry walk one of their best generational, generational talents on the offense side of the ball in the history.

of the Titans, and they let him walk that easily. That kind of shows a little disrespect. I mean, it might have not been disrespect, but it just shows like they didn't really trust in him or thought his career was going down. So I think he's on a rampage to show the Titans. Hey, look what you're missing out on. You thought, oh, we got to switch up the offense

because we're handing me the ball too much. Well, that's all the Tennessee Titans had was handing the ball to him. Well, it's not just the Tennessee Titans that are, part of his fuel. Everyone else could have signed him. Everyone else could assign him too. They all thought he was done. Dallas Cowboys need a running back.

They could assign him. Oh, man, we don't even got to get into that. I mean, that's been in the news for the last month with Jerry Johns. But this is, you know, this is some like Tom Brady type stuff,

you know, because at 31 at a running back, he's doing things that don't, that's not normal. This is not normal. And that's why this is so freaky. He doesn't eat sugars. He doesn't do it.

He takes care of his body. He doesn't eat any fried foods. He works out like crazy. The only thing he fries is defenses. He fries defenses. Yeah. When you were talking about chips, I was like, man, you know, he's a big chip on his shoulder. He probably doesn't have any chips.

He probably doesn't. I was thinking that because those are fried. Oh, man. He's not, he's not falling in into our Tostitos commercials. No. He sees the commercials like, oh, those are good commercials, Jules and Grank, but I ain't eating those. No. He won't eat those.

We didn't need to do that. Maybe kale chips. Yeah, he probably does kale. He does some kios. down chips. 247 pounds. 99-yard touchdown. That is, that's crazy.

I remember watching that play. And what everyone always says with Derek Henry, when you're playing against him, I remember Bill always talking about it. You cannot let this man get going. Keep his feet moving. You've got to have pressure in the middle of the pocket. If you let the train go, you ain't getting on it.

And that's exactly what that 99-yard touchdown was, where he stiffed-armed the dude, still gets to speed, gives a little back, a backward stiff arm, still gets to high speed. It's something like you said, you marvel at when you see a person that does things that have never been done before like that. It's kind of like myself a little bit,

and that's why I love the way he plays. I mean, I love all big men out there, whatever position. So you love big men, too? Yeah, I love big men. It's dudes on dudes here. Of course I love big men. I like big guys. Yeah, big sweaty men as well.

And guys sweating because he's always running for 200-plus yards every single game. Every game. He's on pace for like Dan Mirr. He's on pace to beat the record this year. He has some of the greatest stiff arms in the game. You do too. Your stiff arm.

I had a couple, but not as many as Derek County because he has touched the ball like a hundred thousand more times than myself. And he's still going. That's crazy. And he's still going. It's like, you know, he's 21 years old out there. The amount of times he's touched the ball and he hasn't had like knock on wood. He just has, he can last.

Where does he rank in all time running? backs. Oh, man. He's got to be up there. He's got a 2000-yard season. He's got to be up there. The reason why he doesn't, you know, maybe get the respect, you know, that he should have being like an all-time great running back is because he's not a traditional running back, like those other greats. They're all more like pity pattern, make five guys miss and then shoot up. Jim Brown wasn't. He's kind of Jim Brownie. Yeah, but he's just so. Jim Brown was so much bigger and athletic than everyone. He used to swat those guys around. Derek Hunter's games a little bit different. And when he sees that hole, he just hits that Noss, like you said,

and just goes right through it and runs over everyone in his way. It's just incredible how he can do that. Who is he like a Dickerson? Dickerson in a way. High knees, straight up a little bit. I think he could possibly end up being one of the greatest, top three greatest running backs ever play. All time.

All time. Because if he continues this path for another four or five more years, which he has not shown any decline. Any decline at all. Any at all. He hasn't slowed down one single bit. He only gets better. And he's a different style of a running back.

And he's going against littler defenses right now. Yes, he is. His defenses are all built up for the past, a bunch of receivers. I love his game because he's a big man. I love big men. Man's. Yeah.

Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Jim Brown, Emmett Smith, Adrian Peterson. and Derek Henry? I mean, he's this generation's great right now. Why not? He's our generation's great.

The last great running back after this, McCoy's in there, Shady's in there. But like, I'm talking generational. If he wins a championship, he's up there. If he wins a Super Bowl this year. If he wins a Super Bowl. I mean, it's so crazy that on this episode, we've talked about Madding characters.

Like, you have your two, like, complete opposite Madden characters. You have, like, when you make the funny little guy on your Madden that's like 99 everything and then you get your like your funny big guy it's like 6 foot 4 running back like Derek Henry that

can outrun people it's it's crazy these guys he's a freak you don't see guys that big run that fast and take that much pounding and get up and do it over and over and I feel like we see a 50 plus run every year every like three times a year with this guy

50 plus run Wait, three times a year. More like every other week he has a 50 plus yard. Is it not crazy? Yeah, it's crazy. He's got a huge chest as well. Like, his irons are massive, but like, I swear, his chest, it looks like the rock. You know, when the rock has a shirt off and the chest goes like, boom.

Like, it's that massive. He's jacked. He looks the exact same as he did, you know, in high school. He has the same frame, but like every year he just got bigger and wider and wider. It looked like he was six, three already in high school and just can run all day. But he's just growing and growing and growing and growing every single year. Vernon Davis, he was saying like, he was like that as a kid. And he kept on getting bigger and bigger.

And his speed never got slower and slower. Like, that's like anomaly shit. I mean, he could be the greatest running back in high school's history. Freshman year, 2,400 yards, 26 TD. Sophomore year, 2,700 yards, 30. TDs, a little dip in the junior air with 2,600 yards and freaking 34 T's. Just to top it off, a senior year, let me just put the cherry on the old top. Let's go 4,200 yards and 55.

What the, who is he playing? Who is he playing 55 TDs? He was playing high school in Florida. They got some legit. They got some legit. They do. Do they have record? I didn't know they put things on records in high school.

That is fucking crazy. 12,000 yards in four years. This guy's been a freak since high school. 150 touchdowns in four years. Do the math. He's a Hall of Famer at the high school lover. Hall of Famer at the college level and a Hall of Famer at the NFL level. First ballot.

Without a doubt. It's crazy. Time. What kind of dude is Derek Henry? He's a freak. I don't even got to negotiate that. I mean, he's a freak. He's a dog. He is a dog.

He's a freak. But he's an absolute freak of nature. Heck of a player. No one can tackle him. The guy was born to run. Thanks for listening. Catch brand new episodes of dudes on dudes on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else you get your podcasts. And if you enjoy this, here's a snippet of an episode I think you'll love.

Mike Allstop. For me, for me, though, real quick before you like I believe that he was bigger than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization. He was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization at that time, you know, that era when I was growing up and watching him. And that's what, you know, the first thing that comes to my memory is that he's a Tampa Bay Buccaneer. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. How about you?

For me, neck roll. Mm-hmm. First thing. There we go. I like that. And then freaking boomer just going. Remember on all his highlights, he go, like this guy, I mean, just a bruiser.

And I just remember like he started out of his fullback. And then he was getting tailback touches. And he was producing crazy amounts of yards. Like the most north and south guy you could ever think of. And if you were a white guy that was a lineman, you know what I mean? white linemen that were like in high school i just always remember that they loved mike all stop because he was like the epiphany that maybe this is what it would look like if i got the ball and you know what i mean he gave so much hope to every freaking little white lineman

that was like six foot 240 in high school that played fucking guard center or anything like you know what if i hit a gross spurt i could potentially be mike all stop that's the truth was he like a super superstar in college. I know only about him when he was on Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but did he actually like get handoffs in college or in as well? Or did that start once he got into the NFL? I know because he was that beastly of a fullback. Like what was his style in college as well?

Like what was his stats? All right. So he played a hundred. Nope, that's his NFL stats. What was his college stats that got him drafted in the second round? Because being that beastly at the fullback position, he at least had to show some skill.

skill set that he could still run the ball as well, you know, at that fullback position. I mean, he had three yards. He had three seasons over all, 1,200 yards. Okay. So that's why absolute savage in college as well. I never knew his college stats. 14 touchdowns back to back years. Over 1,000 yards.

Three years. His junior year and senior year, 800 yards is a sophomore year. And as a freshman, he had like 200 yards. So that's what got him drafted in the second round as well, because he was showing the ability that he could run the ball as well. His rookie year he had 65 catches. I mean, he was a great out of the backfield. He was a great out of the...

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