Fantasy Files: Derrick Henry is a top-5 real life and fantasy running back
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🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Hartitz breaks down Derrick Henry's fantasy football value ahead of the 2021 season. You don't need Ian to tell you just how good Henry has been since entering the league, but he does so anyway. The one problem people seem to have with Henry is the idea that he'll regress after seeing so much volume, but Ian isn't buying this on account of the small sample sizes attached and reality that Henry doesn't have the most tread on his tires among fantasy's top-10 backs. Ian concludes the podcast with Henry's ranking and a note on Darrynton Evans' handcuff potential.
Putting Derrick Henry into historical context (0:27) How Derrick Henry stacks up with his peers (2:20) Is regression inevitable for King Henry? (4:12) Does Henry's lack of pass game work matter (8:03) Potential handcuffs on the Titans? (10:48)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to PFF Fantasy Football Podcast. I'm your host, Ian Hartitz. We have another |
| 0:13.6 | edition of our fantasy files on the way. I want to break down about Derek Henry's 2021 |
| 0:18.5 | season, what we should expect from him in terms of an encore. I mean, you know, for |
| 0:21.9 | 2000 years, that's pretty damn good. And just where he should kind of land a general |
| 0:26.6 | rb landscape. So thanks as always tuning in coming to you from a hotel today, wedding |
| 0:30.5 | season, some of my friends, there you go, Jake and Lynn and we will get right into it. |
| 0:35.4 | Basically people, Derek Henry, we need to almost throw out some of these historical trends |
| 0:40.0 | that go along with running back to large workloads because how many of running backs have |
| 0:43.7 | we seen that are 6'3'2'47 and honestly playing in today's modern age of football. And |
| 0:49.2 | I've been talking on Twitter, just saying, Hey, you know, what is too big of a workload? |
| 0:53.8 | And do we draw the line? Do we go back to high school stats or college stats or, you know, |
| 0:58.0 | do we consider guys that only run up the middle or do we consider when guys, you know, catch |
| 1:02.1 | balls into flat like we, there's just so many variables that go into a player's like health |
| 1:07.8 | that I think it's just silly sometimes to assume someone's going to fall back or, you |
| 1:12.1 | know, use the R word regress just because they were that good a year before just because |
| 1:16.4 | they've had X amount of volume. Like I've seen the examples in the past, Mark Murray |
| 1:21.2 | in 2014, you know, fell off a cliff in 2015. Never mind. He came back in 2016, you know, |
| 1:26.8 | Christian McCaffrey, massive workload in 2019. It's hurting 2020. Well, we're all expecting |
| 1:31.9 | him to come back just fine 2021. Derek Henry is seemingly the only guy where, okay, I don't |
| 1:37.0 | see people making huge stand ranking them outside their top five things, the RBs or anything |
| 1:41.5 | like that. But he seems to be the only guy that people are saying, like, look for a drop |
| 1:45.6 | off to come because he has had far too many carries. I just don't know because we're |
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