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Henry 9th in yards. Third in rush TDs. Bettis and LT next.
Live totals through three games of 2026: 13,319 career rushing yards (9th all-time) and 128 career rushing touchdowns (3rd). Cleared Dickerson already. Bettis is 343 yards up the board. LT is 17 rush TDs to tie, 18 to pass.
Career rush yards Live · 9th
13,319
Gap to Bettis (8th): 343
Past Dickerson already (+60) · to LT 365 · to Martin 782 · to Emmitt 5,036
Career rush TDs Live · 3rd
128
To tie LT: 17 · to pass LT: 18
To tie Emmitt: 36 · to break Emmitt: 37
Derrick Henry entered 2026 at 13,018 rushing yards and 122 rush TDs. Three games in — 301 yards and six rush scores — and the live career lines sit at 13,319 and 128 on the ESPN player page (fetched Friday 2 October 2026, Brisbane morning). He has already passed Eric Dickerson (13,259) for ninth all-time yards; CBS Sports’ Garrett Podell dated the Dickerson pass to Week 3 vs the Cowboys in Brazil (27 Sep 2026), with RavensWire notes the next day. CBS mid-game printed him at 13,356; ESPN’s full three-game career total is the live number we use here. Sources: ESPN; CBS Podell; RavensWire.
All-time rushing yards — top 10
Retired totals locked. Henry is the live line at ninth.
- 1Emmitt Smith18,355
- 2Walter Payton16,726
- 3Frank Gore16,000
- 4Barry Sanders15,269
- 5Adrian Peterson14,918
- 6Curtis Martin14,101
- 7LaDainian Tomlinson13,684
- 8Jerome Bettis13,662
- 9Derrick Henry · live13,319
- 10Eric Dickerson13,259
Yards countdown from Henry’s 13,319: past Dickerson already (+60); 343 to catch Bettis (8th); 365 to catch LT (7th); 782 to catch Martin (6th); 5,036 to Emmitt (1st).
All-time rushing TDs
- 1Emmitt Smith164
- 2LaDainian Tomlinson145
- 3Derrick Henry · live128
- 4Marcus Allen123
- 5Adrian Peterson120
- 6Walter Payton110
- 7Jim Brown106
- 8John Riggins104
- 9Marshall Faulk100
- 10Shaun Alexander100
TD countdown from Henry’s 128: 17 to tie LT / 18 to pass; 36 to tie Emmitt / 37 to break the all-time mark.
2026 season strip — through 3 games
GP
3
Car
66
Yards
301
Rush TD
6
YPC
4.6
Career book behind those three games (ESPN): 156 GP, 2,728 CAR, 4.9 YPC, 13,319 yards, 128 rush TDs.
Desk colour / desk math, not prophecy
Label: desk colour / desk math, not prophecy. Ravens-era scoring has sat near ~16 rush TDs a season. At that kind of pace, the TD climb toward LT (17 to tie) is a multi-month story, not a one-month one — and Emmitt (36 to tie) is a longer climb still. The nearer board story this year is yards: Bettis at 343 and LT at 365 are both inside a strong remaining season if the volume holds; Martin at 782 and Emmitt at 5,036 are farther mountains. No injury model, no invented return timelines, no snap-count inventions — just the gaps and the established recent scoring band.
What this item is not
Not a Week 1 essay refresh dressed as news. Not a fantasy ranking or sit/start. Not a medical timeline. Not a claim that Henry catches Bettis, LT, or Emmitt on any particular date. Likelihood lines above are labelled desk colour / desk math under stated assumptions — not prophecy.
Sources: ESPN Derrick Henry player stats (https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/3043078/derrick-henry) fetched Friday 2 October 2026 Brisbane morning — career 13,319 rush yards / 128 rush TDs; 2026: 3 GP, 66 CAR, 301 YDS, 6 rush TD, 4.6 YPC; career 156 GP, 2,728 CAR, 4.9 YPC. CBS Sports Garrett Podell (27 Sep 2026) — Dickerson pass in Week 3 vs Cowboys in Brazil; CBS mid-game print 13,356 noted vs ESPN live career 13,319. RavensWire (28 Sep 2026) Brazil notes. Entered-2026 framing 13,018 / 122 from prior Back Page henry.html / NBC-PFT / ESPN Week 1. Retired all-time yards and rush-TD boards: PFR / ESPN historical lists (Smith, Payton, Gore, Sanders, Peterson, Martin, Tomlinson, Bettis, Dickerson; Allen, Payton, Brown, Riggins, Faulk, Alexander).