Lamar Jackson: Derrick Henry has a ‘big chance’ to break the single-season rushing record

Ravens running back Derrick Henry is averaging 124.7 yards per game, giving him 2,120 rushing yards. That would break Eric Dickerson’s record of 2,105 yards, which he set in 1984 for the Rams.

Lamar Jackson, the favorite for the MVP award, said he believes in Henry.

“It’s there“I feel like he has a great chance to make it,” Jackson said Wednesday, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN. I think he can do it. I think he can do it.”

Henry had 873 yards, the most in the first seven games since the Cowboys had 913 in 2014. Murray finished with 1,845 yards.

Henry’s career best is 2027 in 2020, the fifth of eight seasons with the Giants. No player has ever had two 2,000-yard career seasons.

“I don’t really try to think about it too much,” Henry said of Dickerson’s record. “Just focused on doing my job and getting better and better every week. I don’t really try to get into the stats of things. I’m focused on the team goals.”

The Cowboys are among the teams that have not attempted to sign Henry this offseason, a recurring question for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones with his team ranked dead last in rushing. Henry trains in Dallas in the off-season and was interested in the Cowboys.

Other teams would have been intimidated by Henry’s age when he turned 30 in January.

Jones is right: Henry probably is It won’t be This kind of effect has on the Cowboys and maybe not on many other teams. He’s in the right place at the right time.

“I went to the team I was supposed to go to and the one I wanted to go to,” Henry said. “I can’t worry about what people say. I do what’s right for Derrick Henry and I’m a Baltimore Raven. I want to do my best to help us win every week.”