Ravens get a Derrick Henry injury scare originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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The Baltimore Ravens are a long way away from Week 1, so it wouldn’t be ideal to put any star players in harm’s way.
Derrick Henry on Tuesday, though, had an injury scare.
This is how The Athletic’s Jeff Zrebiec described what happened during OTAs in a post on X:
“Derrick Henry is fine but rhere was scary moment in today’s ota where Henry went down after freak collision. A few players took a knee after Henry was down. However, he got up, only missed few plays and returned to practice.”
It’s never good news for the Ravens when Henry goes down.
The relative positive here is that it seems nothing major happened, but it is totally warranted for the rest of the Ravens to be spooked by this.
Zrebiec did describe a bit more about the incident in a follow-up post on X, too: “Was off a fake handoff and he kind of collided with a DL who got penetration. He didn’t have the ball at the time. Wasn’t intentional.”
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There’s obviously no way to limit all injury risk on a football field. Players get hurt in all sorts of ways, including with no contact at all.
Still, the Ravens should be doing everything they can to protect Henry. For a running back, he’s getting up there in years, and it makes sense to keep him well recharged and rested until the football counts again.
Baltimore is coming off a season when it just missed the playoffs, and the Ravens have a new coaching staff now, so the offseason feels a bit more pivotal.
Still, none of it will matter if Henry were to actually be seriously injured. The Ravens are lucky that nothing was worse on Tuesday.