Derrick Henry says he’s ‘gradual af,’ however the knowledge says in any other case

Derrick Henry is off to an amazing begin this season.

Henry leads the NFL with 873 speeding yards, and his 8 speeding touchdowns additionally prime the league together with Kyren Williams of the Los Angeles Rams. Henry additionally leads the NFL with a median of 124.7 yards per sport, and his three runs of over 40 yards on the 12 months path solely Saquon Barkley in that class.

A type of runs got here final evening within the Baltimore Ravens’ 41-31 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Evening Soccer. Henry took a handoff from Lamar Jackson towards the left facet, following a block from Patrick Ricard, then minimize inside security Antoine Winfield Jr., and raced into the clear for an enormous 81-yard achieve:

He was solely stopped when cornerback Zyon McCollum — who posted a 40-yard sprint of 4.33 on the 2022 NFL Scouting Mix — chased him down from the opposite facet of the sphere.

Plainly reality caught out in Henry’s thoughts after the sport, when he posted this on social media:

Nevertheless, Henry’s notion that he’s “gradual af” isn’t supported by the information. In line with Subsequent Gen Stats Henry reached a prime velocity of 21.72 miles per hour on the run, the fifth-fastest velocity recorded this season, and the third-fastest posted by Henry over his NFL profession:

In actual fact, Henry’s velocity on the run Monday evening in opposition to the Buccaneers topped his velocity on an 87-yard landing run in opposition to the Buffalo Payments from earlier this season:

The one factor that prevented this from being a landing? The truth that McCollum hit 21.85 miles per hour as he chased Henry down.

Each gamers are completely not “gradual af.”