RP Clips: TreVeyon Henderson's Profile Could Be Better

**James Koh** (0:00)
This is Reception Perception The Show. Now, James Koh and Matt Harmon.

**Matt Harmon** (0:06)
Okay, the third running back that you can find on the site, receptionperception.com right now, I think is probably the most controversial because TreVeyon Henderson has a lot of supporters. TreVeyon Henderson, again, he's a high-profile pick out of Ohio State, and last year, he made a lot of really great highlight plays. I mean, shoot, the guy had 1,100 scrimmage yards. He averaged 5.1 yards per carry. He had 10 total touchdowns. TreVeyon Henderson. I was shocked when I saw that overall tally, but 10 total touchdowns for TreVeyon Henderson. And yet, and yet, Matt, when you look at the chart, it looks so bad, bro. Three out of the four quadrants, when we're talking about outside-inside man gap, outside-inside zone, three of the four quadrants are red. As a matter of fact, he's one of the worst running backs I have charted in terms of overall success rate. 42.5% overall success rate is the lowest I have charted over the last two years. He's dead last in man gap success rate. He is dead last in zone success rate. He is dead last in inside rushing success rate. And I know the people are gonna say, he averaged 5.1 yards per carry.
Your charting must be shit because there's no way he's this guy.
I know that's what they're saying, Matt. But my point is when you watch him on a down by down basis, there isn't a lot to like. He truly was a back that did was just one of the, again, just consistently. I don't even wanna say inconsistent. He consistently failed.
It just happens to be that when he succeeds, holy shit, man, he is out the gates, boy. I don't know. Again, the charting is the charting. On a down by down basis, he was consistently bad. But when he got out there and could get into open space, he looked like a truly special back.

**James Koh** (2:16)
Yeah. It's like home runs and strikeouts basically was his rushing style, which you know who hates that? Coaches. Coaches. Yeah. They hate the home runs and strikeout back, especially when they have to be the lead back, which TreVeyon Henderson really struggled to be the lead back last year. My suspicion when even just looking at not your charting, but just some of the stats last year for Henderson early on, it's like, well, he's not really playing that well. Watching him play, he's not really playing that well. Everybody's freaking out, like, why is Remainder Stevenson getting all this work over TreVeyon Henderson? Why is he getting all this work? Because Stevenson has just been total, I know he's other than fumbles, which some coaches care more about fumbles than others. Just because Mike Vrabel played for Bill Belichick doesn't mean he's got Bill Belichick's stick up you know what, like about the freaking fumbles, just because he played for him. He actually never coached. They're actually not even from the same coaching tree. He's Mike Vrabel and Bill Belichick. Maybe Bill Belichick or Mike Vrabel is watching Bill Belichick bench all these running backs with fumbles all those years while he was playing for him. Be like, God, this guy is an idiot. He probably should just let these guys figure it out. That's how Treveyon Henderson was treated last year. Excuse me, I remind receivers it was true. They just kept giving them the ball and what I'm just never going to get out of my head talking about projecting Henderson this year, is that in the postseason, even after, like Trevyn Henderson admittedly had some really good productive games when Ramondre Stevenson, if you're just looking at box score, if you're just box score, he had these really impressive games when Stevenson was out.
But to your point, a lot of those were big play induced moments, and he wasn't necessarily successful on like, these are the assignments executing and everything, as you mentioned, like getting the most out of what was blocked from. He wasn't always good with that, but he would hit the home runs. Even after that, it's not cut in time in the postseason.
They gave 35 touches to Henderson and 70 to Stevenson on way to playing in the Superbowl, and you can sit here and say, well, the Patriots offense stunk during the playoffs, and I think that's a fair point, right? But like all told James, as your charting points out, Henderson had, can we be kind and call it a mixed rookie year?

**Matt Harmon** (4:30)
Yes, I think mixed is good. I think mixed is really good. Yes.

**James Koh** (4:33)
Mixed rookie year. Armando Stevenson is back on this team this year, and just box scored and total box score scouting. Stevenson had 232 touches, and he had 1,291 yards regular season, postseason combined. Henderson had 250 for 1,241.