Lamar Jackson Believes Derrick Henry Can Break NFL's Single-Season Rushing Record

Derrick Henry has fit in quite nicely with his new team, the Baltimore Ravens, this season, rushing for 130 or more yards in four of his past five games.

And Lamar Jackson believes the sky is the limit for the superstar running back.

"It's there. I feel like he has a great chance of achieving that," Jackson told reporters when asked if Henry could set the single-season rushing record. "I think he can do it. I believe he can do it."

The current record is 2,105 yards, set by Eric Dickerson in the 1984 season. He is one of only eight players to exceed 2,000 yards in a season, a list that includes Henry, who rushed for 2,027 yards in the 2020 campaign while still a member of the Tennessee Titans.

Henry is currently averaging 124.7 yards per game, putting him on pace to reach 2,120 yards over the course of a 17-game season (Dickerson set the record in 16 games).

Of note, however, is that the 30-year-old is also on pace for 325 carries, which would be the most he's posted in a season since the 2020 campaign (349 carries) and the third most in his career overall.

Will the Ravens continue to give him that type of workload? Will he be able to remain healthy over a full season?

Henry has generally been durable in his career, playing 15 or more games in all but one season. But even losing a single game to injury, or a half, could make it difficult to catch Dickerson.

The mark would be a personal record, but Henry has been quick to attribute his early success in Baltimore to his teammates.

"It takes all 11 guys," he told reporters this week. "[The] offensive line is doing a hell of a job; I mean a hell of a job. Receivers are blocking; [fullback] Pat [Patrick] Ricard being the beast [and] the juggernaut. It takes all of us—we [are] all tied in together to have success and hopefully it keeps going."

If it does, records are going to fall.