Emmitt Smith Believes Derrick Henry Could Break His All-Time Rushing Record<\/p>\n
Emmitt Smith has been the NFL’s all-time rushing leader for more than 20 years, and it’s long been believed that the Hall of Fame running back’s record of 18,355 yards would never be broken.<\/p>\n
However, with Derrick Henry showing no signs of slowing down at 32, the possibility of him surpassing Smith isn’t as far-fetched as it once seemed.<\/p>\n
Henry, who ran for 144 yards and three touchdowns in the Ravens’ season-opening win over the Indianapolis Colts, is 10th on the all-time rushing list with 13,162 yards. If he stays healthy the entire season, Henry will likely move into sixth place, ahead of Curtis Martin and behind Adrian Peterson.<\/p>\n
Henry still has a ways to go to catch Smith, but the former Cowboys great thinks Henry has a legitimate shot at breaking his record.<\/p>\n
“Oh yeah, I think it’s possible,” Smith said via DraftKings. “Derrick Henry is a bigger back. He takes great care of his body. He’s in great shape.”<\/p>\n
Smith pointed out that it wouldn’t be the first time that Henry broke one of his career rushing records.<\/p>\n
“Derrick Henry broke my [Florida] state high school record. So I believe he could do it again,” Smith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmitt Smith Believes Derrick Henry Could Break His All-Time Rushing Record Emmitt Smith has been the NFL’s all-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[20021,359287,257,11179,17263,2589,349,99],"class_list":["post-849925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-derrick-henry","tag-emmitt-smith","tag-general","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-inline-news","tag-late-for-work","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}