Pro Football Focus says the Ravens have the NFL’s best collection of RBs

Canton, Ohio is calling. Typically, we all try to avoid the temptation of ‘leaping without looking’ or ‘counting chickens before they hatch’, but this is something different entirely. Long before Derrick Henry landed with the Baltimore Ravens, he looked like someone with a Pro Football Hall of Fame pedigree. You knew it. So did the rest of us.

Fast forward to the present, and now, he has the resume to back the claim. He turned 31 years old in January, and instead of regressing, he has seemingly found his legs again.

His most recent season, his first in a new city, was the second-best of his career. He almost cracked 2,000 yards rushing for the second time. It’s nearly as if he’s aging in reverse, but here’s the best part. Baltimore’s rushing attack can be even better than it was when we last saw them.

Pro Football Focus says the Ravens have the NFL’s best collection of RBs

No team in the NFL posted more rushing yards than the 2024-25 Baltimore Ravens. They made it look easy, but it wasn’t. This is, after all, professional football.

Henry’s 1,921 rushing yards finished second only to Saquon Barkley. His 16 rushing touchdowns led everyone, but as good as that news was for a Ravens team that invested in him, they may not hear anything all summer that tops this next theory.

Pro Football Focus recently ranked every NFL team’s collection of running backs. Baltimore claimed the top spot. In other words, Henry doesn’t have to rely on Henry alone.

There’s a committee in the making here if Baltimore wants to explore the idea. Here’s what PFF’s Dalton Wasserman had to say about placing them atop his ranking while everyone is mulling that one over.

“The Ravens reign supreme with the NFL’s highest-graded running back from last season, Derrick Henry, and a talented unit behind him. Henry led the position with a 93.5 PFF rushing grade as well as 89 missed tackles forced and 6.0 yards per carry. At this point, his eventual decline isn’t believable until we see it.

Alongside Henry is one of the NFL’s best third-down backs, Justice Hill. Hill’s 89.0 PFF receiving grade in 2024 ranked fourth among running backs last season. He did not drop any of his 52 targets. Baltimore also has Keaton Mitchell, who earned an elite 92.5 PFF rushing grade in limited work in 2023, and Rasheen Ali, who added special-teams value late last season.”

Mitchell was recently mentioned as one of CBS Sports’ breakout candidates for the coming season. Hill allows Baltimore’s offense an opportunity for a ‘thunder and lightning’ pairing alongside Henry. The Ravens have a goldmine in Derrick, but that doesn’t mean that they have to beat him up in the process.

He has given the game nine NFL seasons. Yes, time has flown, but if the Baltimore Ravens want to maximize the return on the two-year, $16 million deal worth up to $20 million that they gave him on March 12, 2024 (and the two-year extension they handed him this past May), they may want to invest in ideas that end with keeping him fresh and healthy.

Perhaps theories like PFFs serve as catalysts for convincing them to do so. The Ravens have the league’s best committee sitting right under their noses. All they have to do is take a whiff.