He also rushed for 153 career touchdowns. He finished his high school football career with 12,124 career rushing yards, which broke Ken Hall's career record. He set the Florida high school record with a 510-yard performance against Jacksonville Jackson and averaged 9.2 yards per carry and 327.8 yards per game as a senior, finishing the season with a state-record 4,261 yards and 55 touchdowns. He rushed for 2,610 yards and 34 scores as a junior in 2011 to earn first-team All-Coast honors from the Florida Times-Union. He was named a first-team All-Coast at running back in 2010 after rushing for 2,788 yards and 38 touchdowns while averaging 8.9 yards per attempt. He ran for 2,465 yards and 26 touchdowns as a freshman in 2009. He played as a running back for the Yulee Hornets football team. Henry attended Yulee High School, where he was a three-sport star in football, basketball, and track. He developed a close relationship to his grandmother, who he cites as very influential in his upbringing. Henry was raised primarily by his grandmother Gladys, who nicknamed him 'Shocka', as his birth shocked the whole family, given his parents' young ages. His mother became a hemodialysis technician. Henry's father, known as 'Big D', was absent for much of his childhood, having been arrested 20 times for various crimes including drug and prostitution-related offenses, and was consequently in and out of prison and had trouble maintaining employment. was born in Yulee, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, to Stacy Veal and Derrick Henry Sr., aged 15 and 16 respectively. 2.3 2015 season: National Championship and Heisman seasonĭerrick Lamar Henry Jr.His imposing rushing game has earned him the nickname ' King Henry'. In 2020, Henry would again lead the league in rushing yards and touchdowns and became the eighth player in NFL history to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season, and the second Tennessee Titan to do so. He led the NFL in rushing yards for the 2019 season, as well as rushing touchdowns (tied with Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones). He was drafted in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft by the Titans. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where during his junior season, he broke Herschel Walker's single-season college rushing yards record in the SEC, won the 2015 Heisman Trophy, the Doak Walker Award, the Maxwell Award, and the Walter Camp Award, and was a key part of the 2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team that won the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. (born January 4, 1994) is an American football running back for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL).īorn and raised in Yulee, Florida, he set the national high school football record for career rushing yards with the Yulee Hornets. 99-yard rushing touchdown (Tied with Tony Dorsett)ĭerrick Lamar Henry Jr.USA Today High School All-American ( 2012).All-Time High School Football Rushing Leader.

SEC Offensive Player of the Year (2015).2× NFL rushing touchdowns leader (2019, 2020).NFL Offensive Player of the Year (2020).

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