Derrick Henry is making NFL history almost every single Sunday. Earlier in the season, Henry joined the 10,000 career rushing yards club, the first former Alabama football player to eclipse that total.
In the first quarter of Sunday's Baltimore Ravens game against the Denver Broncos, Henry punched in a seven yard touchdown for his 100th career rushing touchdown. Henry became the 10th player in the history of the NFL to reach that milestone.
The 100th career touchdown ties Henry for 8th all-time, with Marshall Faulk and fellow Alabama alumn Shaun Alexander scoring exactly 100 rushing touchdowns.
Derrick Henry just scored his 100th career TD 🫡 (via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/vDf3y6RN2w
— Overtime (@overtime) November 3, 2024
Henry has now scored a touchdown in every Ravens game this season. If he continues that, Henry will pass Jim Brown and into 6th place on the all-time list. He's 10 rushing touchdowns away from tying Walter Payton for 5th all time.
Emmitt Smith is No. 1 all time with 164 career rushing touchdowns, a mark that might be too far away to surpass. But getting inside the Top 5, and probably finishing his career no worse than 3rd, is just another statistic that makes the Hall of Fame case for the former Crimson Tide legend.