“We’re going to have to have all hands on deck and do the best job we can of running to the football and gang tackling. You even see him on plays he might have three or four guys on him, and someho…
Derrick Henry is taller and heavier than all but three members of the Giants’ starting defense.
Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale stuck to football for his comparison — but traveled back about 60 years to explain“He’s like our modern day Jim Brown, I think,” Martindale said. “He’s just that much different when he has the ball in his hands, so it’s a challenge every time he touches it.”The 6-foot-3, 247-pound Henry has averaged 5 yards on 900 carries over the past three seasons, winning back-to-back rushing titles with 1,540 yards in 2019 and 2,027 in 2020.
Easier said than done because Henry isn’t plodding through the line. He’s also a home run hitter with a NFL-best nine touchdown runs of at least 50 yards since 2018.“One of the best backs of all time,” Williams said. “He is always the guy teams will circle and try to prepare for, and he still happens to have 100-plus rushing games all the time.”
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