{"id":444988,"date":"2025-10-14T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/444988\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:00:15","slug":"analyst-floats-wild-patriots-ravens-trade-involving-derrick-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/444988\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Floats Wild Patriots-Ravens Trade Involving Derrick Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as big of a story as the New England Patriots have been through Week 6 at 4-2, there\u2019s still one glaringly obvious weakness on the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots\u2019 ground game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/stats\/team\/_\/view\/offense\/stat\/rushing\/table\/rushing\/sort\/rushingYardsPerGame\/dir\/desc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranks 26th<\/a> in the NFL with 91.5 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n<p>Could a certain \u201cKing\u201d be a good fit for New England\u2019s rushing attack?<\/p>\n<p>The Ringer\u2019s Bill Simmons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W-CXBnXkgEc&amp;t=2790s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">floated a blockbuster trade idea<\/a> between the Patriots and Baltimore Ravens on Monday that would send five-time Pro Bowl running back Derrick Henry to New England. Simmons\u2019 trade proposal ships Patriots starting running back Rhamondre Stevenson and a second-round pick to the Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat pick would get (Baltimore\u2019s) attention? Like our second? What if our second and Rhamondre? They got to take Rhamondre, well they need a running back,\u201d Simmons said to his guest, Cousin Sal on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bakermania-kelces-new-identity-cross-off-teams-guess\/id1043699613?i=1000731556870\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bill Simmons Podcast<\/a>. \u201cYou know who used to work together? Derrick Henry and Mike Vrabel. Yeah they used to have a really great relationship once upon a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Some pieces of what Cousin Sal called a \u201cfantasy trade\u201d make sense.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At 1-5, Baltimore is fading fast, and while Henry is a future Hall-of-Famer, he\u2019ll also turn 32 years old in January and will (presumably) slow down eventually.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama product also has a history with Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel, spending six seasons together with the Tennessee Titans from 2018 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson, meanwhile, has struggled mightily again this year, averaging just 3.1 yards per carry while committing three fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>New England appears to be very much ready to make their first postseason since the 2021 campaign and could use another offensive star like Henry.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens may not be ready to give up their former Offensive Player of the Year, however, especially with two-time MVP quarterback Lamar Jackson expected to return from his injury following the team\u2019s Week 7 bye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For now, this is indeed, merely a \u201cfantasy trade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For as big of a story as the New England Patriots have been through Week 6 at 4-2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,11562,292,7,6,169,4120],"class_list":{"0":"post-444988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-bill-simmons","12":"tag-derrick-henry","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-ravens","16":"tag-rhamondre-stevenson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115370998247717781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}