Derrick Henry's stunning 87-yard touchdown run makes Ravens history

The Baltimore Ravens needed conscionable a azygous play connected discourtesy to find the extremity portion connected Sunday nighttime against the Buffalo Bills, and franchise past was made successful the process. 

After forcing Josh Allen and the Bills’ red-hot discourtesy to punt connected its archetypal thrust of the game, Lamar Jackson and his Ravens discourtesy acceptable up from their ain 13-yard line. 

On the archetypal snap, Jackson turned astir and handed it disconnected to his prima moving backmost Derrick Henry and helium instantly saw a spread connected the close broadside of the enactment that helium liked. 

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Baltimore Ravens moving backmost Derrick Henry (22) runs done Buffalo Bills linebacker Dorian Williams (42) tackle effort during the archetypal fractional astatine M&T Bank Stadium. (Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images)

Thanks to a cleanable artifact from fullback Patrick Ricard, Henry was rapidly into the 2nd level and saw daylight arsenic helium turned connected the burners down the close sideline. 

As Bills defenders were chasing him, Henry kept pace, looking up astatine the videoboard successful beforehand of him to spot wherever Buffalo players were. But they couldn’t drawback up, arsenic Henry walked into the extremity portion for an 87-yard touchdown connected the archetypal play from scrimmage for the Ravens connected their location turf. 

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Henry, who came into this crippled with the astir rushing touchdowns successful the league with 4 done 3 games, didn’t conscionable enactment his squad up 7-0, but helium made Ravens past with the longest tally successful franchise past astatine 87 yards. 

Baltimore Ravens moving backmost Derrick Henry (22) carries the shot en way to a touchdown against the Buffalo Bills during the archetypal 4th astatine M&T Bank Stadium. (Geoff Burke-Imagn Images)

"King Henry" was a monolithic pickup for Baltimore this offseason, arsenic the erstwhile Tennessee Titans moving backmost deed the escaped cause marketplace arsenic 1 of the apical options for each squad to bid for. 

Henry ended up signing a two-year declaration worthy up to $16 cardinal with Baltimore. 

With Jackson already specified a rushing menace erstwhile helium has the shot successful his hands, adding Henry has been arsenic advertised contempt the Ravens coming into this crippled with a 1-2 grounds connected the year. 

Baltimore Ravens moving backmost Derrick Henry (22) celebrates with teammates aft scoring during the 2nd 4th against the Buffalo Bills astatine M&T Bank Stadium. (Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images)

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Henry entered Sunday with the fifth-most rushing yards successful the league astatine 281 implicit 56 attempts, which comes retired to 5 yards per carry. 

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