Fantasy Football: 10 Players Who Won't Live Up to the Hype
Derrick Henry, RB, Tennessee Titans
The Tennessee Titans made a fascinating decision by drafting Derrick Henry in the 2016 NFL Draft despite trading for DeMarco Murray earlier in the offseason, but here we are.
Murray's nightmarish 2015 with the Philadelphia Eagles led to some equally scary metrics: -5.73 Rushing NEP on 194 carries (-0.03 per carry) with a 33.51% Success Rate. Teammates Ryan Mathews (0.54 Rushing NEP on 108 carries and a 46.30% Success Rate) and Darren Sproles (7.22 on 83 carries with a 45.78% Success Rate) made him look even worse.
But reports in Tennessee have generally been good for Murray, something that wasn't true last year in Philadelphia when he was missing practice upon practice prior to the season.
Make no mistake -- Henry has impressed, too. The bigger issue here is that he's being drafted in the seventh round, near players with more obvious paths to workhorse loads such as Frank Gore, Matt Jones, and Ameer Abdullah.
The preseason rumbles are fun to watch, but Henry's upside is capped unless Murray gets injured, making his seventh-round ADP pretty head-scratching.