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Ravens RB Derrick Henry adds to the accolades with 199 rushing yards against Bills
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Ravens RB Derrick Henry adds to the accolades with 199 rushing yards against Bills

7) Derrick Henry contributes career accolades despite just missing the 200-yard mark

The King started Sunday Night Football with a bang: a Ravens record 87-yard touchdown run on Baltimore’s first play from scrimmage.

That one run nearly matched the Bills’ entire offensive output in the first half (90 total yards).

For Henry, it was the seventh rushing touchdown of more than 70 yards of his career, tying Adrian Peterson and Chris Johnson for the most such touchdowns in NFL history.

Since 2017, Henry has four rushing touchdowns of at least 70 yards in primetime games (the rest of the NFL has combined for four of those touchdowns in that span).

On the Ravens’ final possession of the game, with a majority of both teams’ starters on the sideline, Baltimore trotted Henry back onto the field. The Ravens led 35-10 and the game was all but over, but an important milestone was still within reach.

Henry had 196 rushing yards at the time and was looking for his seventh career game over 200 yards on the ground. That would have been significant, as it would have broken a tie with Adrian Peterson and OJ Simpson for most games with 200+ rushing yards in NFL history.

Henry got two more rushing attempts, but fell just one yard short of 200.

Pending a statistical correction, Henry lost one rushing yard on that fumble in the end zone. Difficult break.