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Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry said he hasn’t though at all about retirement and said he feels as good as he ever has. (Photo by Todd Rosenberg\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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Derrick Henry has one thing left on his bucket list \u2013 win a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old running back is already one of the best runners to ever grace a football field, being the only back in history to rush for 2,000 yards in a single season at the high school, college and NFL levels.<\/p>\n
He has accomplished seemingly everything imaginable including being a five-time Pro Bowler, three-time All-Pro selection and an NFL Offensive Player of the Year. In addition to those NFL accolades, he\u2019s won the Heisman Trophy, been a College Football National Champion and has led both the NFL and NCAA in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s just one thing missing from the Hall of Fame resume \u2013 a Super Bowl. The furthest Henry has advanced in the playoffs is the AFC Championship Game during the 2019 season with the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, exactly,\u201d said Henry in a one-on-one interview when asked if Super Bowl is his lone objective. \u201cI want to get that ring. Whatever comes with it, comes with it, but I want to be at the mountain top at the end of the day. That\u2019s my goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Henry has shown no signs of slowing down despite completing his 10th season as a running back. The veteran back is coming off of a season in which he ran for 1,595 yards and 16 touchdowns on 5.2 yards per carry. For the third consecutive season, he didn\u2019t miss a single game.<\/p>\n
However, the Baltimore Ravens missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2021 season, finishing 8-9 after losing a tough season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers due to a missed kick at the end. It also didn\u2019t help that the Ravens lost Lamar Jackson to injury early in the season, causing him to miss four games. <\/p>\n
Baltimore went 1-3 in those games without Jackson and started out the season 1-5 before making a late push for the playoffs. However, they came up just short.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I think it\u2019s just being locked in,\u201d said Henry of the key to making a deep postseason run in order to win the Super Bowl. \u201cThis season, we came up really short, really disappointed in how the year went. This is just a year to really learn from, a year to watch and reflect on. How we can grow as a team and individually is when we come back, we hit the ground running and ready to face any challenges this next season brings, because we went through the rafts with this season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ravens moved on from head coach John Harbaugh after 18 seasons, who was the second-longest tenured head coach in the NFL at the time of his firing. That means Baltimore will be searching for their first head coach since Harbaugh took over in 2008.<\/p>\n
Henry called Harbaugh a \u201cgreat coach\u201d and said he \u201cenjoyed\u201d his time with the Super Bowl champion head coach. He referred to Harbaugh as a \u201cHall of Fame\u201d coach who always conducted himself in a \u201cfirst class\u201d way.<\/p>\n
The five-time Pro Bowl back is looking at this past season in an optimistic manner, saying it \u201cwas needed\u201d in order for himself and the Ravens to reach the next level.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis past season was needed,\u201d said Henry. \u201cIt got us a chance to experience adversity as a group and so on the next season, we already know what that\u2019s like. We can go and focus and then ready to take on anything that comes our way, and stay close and get ready to get out there and get what we want.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if he has thought about retirement or a timetable for how much longer he plans to play, said he hasn\u2019t thought about retirement at all.<\/p>\n
Henry makes it clear he feels great as he will prepare to enter his 11th season in 2026. He details that he started changing up his diet after his sixth year (that was the 2021 season) and that his workout routine remains largely the same as it was when he was a rookie back in 2016. <\/p>\n
\u201cI usually do my same workout routine,\u201d said Henry. “I might add some stuff, I have added heels going into my fourth or fifth year, which I fell in love with. I do it all the time and then just add some things here and there, whatever my trainer wants to do and speed coach wants to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started dieting after my sixth year when I broke my foot, just because my diet was just terrible,\u201d Henry continued to say. \u201cI didn\u2019t really eat healthy. It didn\u2019t matter what I ate, and I wanted to challenge myself to see if I can do it like throughout the whole season. I did, and I love the response my body had to it, so I just kept it going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derrick Henry Partners With PEPCID For NFL Playoffs<\/p>\n
The 10-year veteran is partnering up with PEPCID during the NFL playoffs, which is well known for their heartburn relief. Henry details how the heartburn relief brand helps him with his diet and routine.<\/p>\n
Henry said he\u2019s been using PEPCID for \u201cfour or five years now\u201d even though he just partnred with PEPCID recently. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was actually excited because I use PEPCID very frequently, and I just thought it was perfect that I was able to partner with them, especially with PEPCID complete, which works fast, especially when I have my cheat meals,\u201d said Henry. \u201cI\u2019m sure everybody, all the fans out there that have cheat meals would know the same thing. Because I\u2019m fast and PEPCID is fast as well. I think it was the perfect collaboration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just trying to encourage fans watching the playoffs or whenever the Super Bowl comes, when they\u2019re having those big cheat meals and indulging in those cmeals that nothing works as fast as PEPCID complete,\u201d Henry continued to say. \u201cI\u2019m happy for the partnership. Just trying to let fans know that PEPCID is a way to go if you want to indulge in something that’s not good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry said he hasn’t though at all about retirement and said he feels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,292,7,2909,895,6,57,169,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-684379","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-derrick-henry","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-john-harbaugh","14":"tag-lamar-jackson","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-ravens","18":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115911093036590918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684379","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=684379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}