BALTIMORE – “King Henry” finally has the attention of “The Waterboy.”
Baltimore Ravens star running back Derrick Henry has an offer from Adam Sandler, his favorite actor, to be cast in a movie if the five-time Pro Bowl selection rushes for 2,000 yards this season.
The offer grew out of Henry’s appearance on radio personality Dan Patrick’s show this week to discuss his $30 million, two-year contract extension.
Patrick told Henry he would get him in a Sandler movie if he made NFL history with a second 2,000-yard season. Two days later, Sandler made the offer himself in a video shown to Henry on the practice field.
“That’s my dawg,” a wide-smiling Henry said while watching the video.
Sandler, star of “Happy Gilmore” and the remake of “The Longest Yard” along with “The Waterboy,” said he was in a hotel room while filming his greeting for Henry. At one point, Sandler turned the camera to show his bulldog.
“Two thousand yards-plus this year not only gets you in a movie, but we’ll have a nice dinner together and talk about Dan Patrick’s facial hair and how hard it is for him to grow it,” Sandler joked in a video posted Friday. “I love ya and keep it up.”
Sandler came up during Patrick’s interview with Henry because Patrick was hearing a hoodie for the soon-to-be-released “Happy Gilmore 2.” Sandler had given Patrick the hoodie.
“Can you do me a favor?” Henry asked Patrick. “If you ever see him again, tell him I’m a really big fan and would really love to meet him one day.”
Patrick left Sandler a voice message — and Sandler responded.
“Dan you’re a real one!” Henry later wrote on social media.
Henry rushed for 2,027 yards with Tennessee in 2020, when he was an All-Pro and the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year in the fifth of his eight seasons with the Titans.
Henry nearly did it again as a 30-year-old in a resurgence with the Ravens last season, when he ran for 1,921 yards. Saquon Barkley of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles led the NFL with 2,005 yards.
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