![]() “You take a picture of his face anytime you see him run, you can see that. “His eyes are always wide every time that he runs the ball, period,” Titans left guard Rodger Saffold said. Just watch him on TV the next time he breaks away in the open field. “He has some God-given abilities and then obviously his size helps him.” “He’s tremendously blessed,” Titans running backs coach Tony Dews said. And yes, Henry keeps lifting weights throughout the season. Once football starts, Henry rarely stops, catching passes or often working in a sand pit when he’s not involved in drills. ![]() The second name on that list, Kansas City Chiefs rookie Clyde Edwards-Helaire, has played an extra game and still trails him by some 83 yards. Henry starts his offseason early each year working with his trainer to keep pushing his conditioning level. Derrick Henry has made a near-perfect start to the 2020 season, leading the league in rushing with 588 yards in only five games. “He’s punishing other guys, and it’s a big difference when you’re carrying the ball that many times being able to be the guy that’s initiating those blows,” Peterson said. Peterson sees some of former Titans running back Eddie George in Henry, with both 6-3, along with some of Terrell Davis, who ran for 2,008 yards in 1998 during a decade dominated by Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith. “He is this generation’s Jim Brown, and he’s backing it up because he’s consistently now over the years putting together numbers to back up that he’s one of the best,” Tomlinson said. ![]() Tomlinson said that’s because Henry has traits of a smaller runner with speed, quickness in and out of the hole along with great feet, vision and a “master stiff arm.” Combined with Henry’s size, Tomlinson said that adds up to a comparison to Brown. You knew that he was going to have it 20-plus times, but could you stop him? And people cannot.” “It’s literal fact what he’s doing and the way he runs the ball just like Jim Brown back in the day who was going to get the ball. “People shouldn’t take that as, ‘Oh, my God, what a quote,’” Tomlinson said. That production when defenses pack eight and nine defenders near the line trying to stop him is why Tomlinson thinks Henry is this generation’s Jim Brown. ![]()
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