Given how the first meeting with the Baltimore Ravens went earlier this year — a 35-10 shellacking by the Ravens back in Week 4 — the Buffalo Bills are presumably eager to exact their revenge this weekend when they host the Ravens at Highmark Stadium in their AFC divisional-round playoff matchup.
But if the Bills want a different outcome from the beatdown they suffered at the end of September, they’re going to have to do a better job of slowing down star running back Derrick Henry, who ran for 199 yards — 87 of which came on a first-quarter touchdown run — against them the last time they played.
Containing Henry is no small feat, as the Pittsburgh Steelers found out last week in their 28-14 loss to the Ravens in the wild-card round. Henry bulldozed his way to 186 yards rushing and two touchdowns as Baltimore ran for 299 total yards — the most the Steelers have ever given up in a single game.
Henry’s performance was so impressive that the NFL wanted to remind everyone just how dominant the 31-year-old RB was on Tuesday morning when it tweeted about just how impressive Henry looked.
“This man was an unstoppable force in the Wild Card ,” the NFL X account posted.
Henry’s 186 rushing yards were a Ravens’ postseason record, as were the team’s 299 total rushing yards, and it was the ninth-moth single-game rushing yards in franchise history as well.
Henry also tied Denver Broncos legend Terrell Davis for the most games of 150 or more rushing yards in the postseason with four.
Buffalo had the No. 12-ranked run defense in the league during the regular season, allowing 115.r yards per game and 13 total touchdowns. Henry hasn’t been held to under 100 yards rushing in nearly a month when he was limited to just 67 yards in a 35-14 win over the New York Giants on Dec. 15.
