Derrick Henry
BALRB11 · overall #15 · tier 3 · age 32
Projected points
205
13.5/gm
Value over replacement
95
repl 116
Range
149–261
sd 56
Week
21.1
vs TEN
The take
written by hand
The argument is share, not talent. He took 78.3% of Baltimore's carries and I have him at 15.0 a game. I still knock him hard for being 32, the age curve is down at 0.84, and that is the whole gap to ADP RB7.
Why this ranking
hand-set 2026-09-03
205.0 over 15.2 games = 13.49/g. RE-EXPRESSED as the rate claim it always was. The argument is backfield SHARE: he took 78.3% of Baltimore's carries in 2025, higher than 29 of 32 backfields, and CARRY_SHAPE_GAMMA pulls him to 62.3% toward its 51.7% median. The previous version wrote a bare 205.0 and bought GAMES instead -- 15.2 to 15.7, carries 14.51 to 14.56, rate essentially unmoved -- because his avail_flat of 0.985 left just enough headroom for split_override to spend it there. Games are now pinned at the model's own 15.2, so the raise lands on rate and the share view is finally on the board. NOT a defect, and two hypotheses died proving it: age is charged once (model/history 0.803 against 0.838 for one application), and Baltimore's rush budget is right (2nd in the league, -4% against actual). The gamma regression is calibrated, so this is a view that a 32-year-old repeats a top-three workload. Re-read 3 Sep: no sign of falsification. 13.49/g on 15.2 games against his own 18.06 half-PPR/g. Board RB10 against ADP RB6 and ECR RB9; the share argument is unchanged and the row still cuts him below both markets. BASIS CORRECTED 3 SEP. The comparison above originally quoted `obs_ppr_pg`, which is FULL PPR, against a projection the board computes in HALF PPR. Every such figure in this file has been replaced with the player's own half-PPR rate, measured from nflverse weekly data over his whole career. Receptions are the whole difference, so the error scaled with target volume and was largest for receivers.
This is a view, not a correction — the model said something different and was overruled. See how it works.
Projected usage
opportunity, before efficiency
- Targets / game
- 1.9
- Carries / game
- 15.0
- Receptions / game
- 1.5
- Rec yards / game
- 13
- Rush yards / game
- 72
- Rush TD / game
- 0.66
- Rec TD / game
- 0.03
- Total TD / game
- 0.69
- Games projected
- 15.2
- Observed pts/gm (history)
- 17.3
- Games of history
- 67
- Age multiplier
- 0.838
- Usage carryover
- 0.90
Team context
what scales this projection
- Neutral sec / play
- 33.9
- Projected plays / game
- 60.2
- Projected pass rate
- 53%
- OL run block
- +0.50
- OL pass protection
- -0.17
- OL continuity
- 57%
- 2TE rate
- 45%
- 3WR rate
- 34%
- 1st-down pass rate
- 46%
- Run friendly
- +0.69
- Scheme creativity
- +0.62
- Play action / motion
- 23% / 53%
Situation
ambiguity widens the projection range
- Label
- new head coach, clear lead
- Ambiguity score
- 55
- Effective contributors
- 1.57
- Top player's share
- 78%
- New play-caller
- yes
- Variance multiplier
- 1.64
Trade window
schedule-driven buy / sell timing
- Action
- hold
- Window weeks
- 4-6
- Window opponents
- TEN,ATL,CLE
- Window matchup
- +0.28
- Opponents after
- CIN,BUF,JAX
- After matchup
- +0.11
- Flip edge
- +0.17
- Buy basis
- recent form
- Bye week
- 13
- Playoff schedule (15-17)
- -0.28
2025 game log
full season · Standard
Games
17
Points
264.5
Per game
15.56
17-gm pace
265
Best / worst
45.6 / 2.3
Pace extrapolates the selected weeks over 17 games. It is what that stretch was worth, not a projection — no availability, matchup or regression adjustment is applied.
| Wk | Pts | Rank | Att | Ru Yds | Ru TD | Tgt | Rec | Re Yds | Re TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28.2 | RB1 | 18 | 169 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| 2 | 2.3 | RB54 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 9.7 | RB21 | 12 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | 5.8 | RB42 | 8 | 42 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 0 |
| 5 | 9.3 | RB23 | 15 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 13.0 | RB13 | 24 | 122 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 8 | 19.1 | RB7 | 21 | 71 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 12.1 | RB10 | 19 | 119 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | 8.4 | RB28 | 20 | 75 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 11 | 18.2 | RB7 | 18 | 103 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 0 |
| 12 | 20.8 | RB3 | 21 | 64 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| 13 | 16.4 | RB8 | 10 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 0 |
| 14 | 10.2 | RB22 | 25 | 94 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 15 | 10.0 | RB22 | 11 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 22.8 | RB6 | 18 | 128 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 45.6 | RB1 | 36 | 216 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | 12.6 | RB13 | 20 | 126 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |