If you ask Adrian Peterson, there’s room for one more in the club. And the way the Lions’ veteran running back sees it, Derrick Henry certainly looks like he belongs.
But don’t bother trying to get Henry to admit it right now.
Among the story lines heading into Sunday’s Lions-Titans matchup in Nashville is this one: Henry, the NFL’s rushing leader, has a shot at becoming just the eighth running back in league history — and the first since Peterson in 2012 — to rush for 2,000 yards in a single season.
But when a Tennessee reporter began to ask a question about Peterson’s feat on a Zoom call Thursday, Henry jokingly cut him off.