Ravens, Derrick Henry agree on two-year extension

The Ravens’ rumored Derrick Henry extension will come to move. After a dominant Baltimore debut, the All-Professional again is now signed past 2025.

Baltimore will lengthen Henry on a two-year, $30M deal, ESPN’s Adam Schefter studies. Henry will see $25M totally assured. Delivering a monster age-30 season, Henry is now signed by means of 2027. This deal definitely places the previous Titans star on observe to complete his profession as a Raven.

Beforehand hooked up to a two-year, $16M deal, Henry entered the 2024 free-agency interval with mileage issues. These helped preserve his beforehand full assure ($9M) low. As Saquon Barkley ($26M) and D’Andre Swift ($14M) obtained way more profitable at-signing numbers final yr, Henry didn’t obtain comparable curiosity. 

The Ravens had focused the seemingly Corridor of Fame-bound again earlier than the 2023 commerce deadline, nonetheless, and so they stored that curiosity in pairing him with Lamar Jackson a yr later. Henry rewarded the AFC North group, serving to it declare one other division title.

Henry turned solely the second working again this century to achieve not less than 1,900 yards and fail to land a first-team All-Professional nod, becoming a member of ex-Packer Ahman Inexperienced (2003). Henry, nonetheless, led the NFL with 16 speeding touchdowns throughout his 1,921-yard rampage. After the Eagles rewarded final yr’s first-team All-Professional RB with a deal that included $36M totally assured, the Ravens will give their bulldozing starter a assure close to the highest tier on the place. Henry’s $25M ranks behind solely Barkley’s quantity and Ashton Jeanty‘s rookie contract amongst locked-in cash on the place.

This Ravens choice represents an incredible dedication to a participant who’s 31 and has logged 2,355 profession carries — most amongst any again on a present roster. Henry has a 600-plus-carry edge on Joe Mixon, who sits in second amongst lively RBs. 

Henry has now secured two big-ticket extensions throughout his profession. This one, regardless of Henry’s age, practically eclipses his 2020 Titans accord in ensures. That deal, agreed to on the 2020 franchise-tag deadline, introduced $25.5M locked in. Although Henry wanted to signal for 4 years to safe that quantity. The Ravens are signing it over two, primarily based on his standing as one of the crucial dependable RBs in NFL historical past.

Exact particulars of Henry’s new contract are nonetheless being reported, nevertheless it ought to cut back his 2025 cap hit, which was initially slightly below $13M. That may give the Ravens some extra respiratory room with the wage cap as they end signing their 2025 draft class and make their annual summer time veteran additions, which might embody a security after Ar’Darius Washington‘s torn Achilles.

As for money circulate, Henry will obtain $14M in 2025 and $11M in 2026, in line with Sports activities Illustrated’s Albert Breer, representing all of his totally assured cash. He’ll be due one other $12M in money in 2027, which is basically a group possibility yr since none of his wage is assured.

By then, Henry can be 33 years outdated, far previous the retirement age for many NFL working backs. If he and the Ravens have captured their elusive Tremendous Bowl win by then, he might cling up the cleats and begin making ready his Corridor of Fame acceptance speech. If not, he could run it again in Baltimore for one final shot at a Lombardi earlier than he retires.