Welcome to the Baltimore Ravens, Derrick Henry.

The 2-time speeding champion joined the Ravens this offseason after eight seasons with the Tennessee Titans. He kicked off his time with the group by scoring the primary landing of the 2024 NFL season.

Henry plowed by the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs protection for a five-yard landing run on the primary drive of Thursday’s NFL season opener towards Kansas Metropolis.

The rating capped a gap drive heavy on Henry. The drive took 11 performs and spanned 70 yards. Henry carried the ball on 5 of these performs, tallying 17 speeding yards. He completed the sport with 13 carries for 46 yards and a landing. Quarterback Lamar Jackson led the Ravens with 122 yards on 16 carries.

It is a probably signal of issues to come back for a Ravens group that tasks to make use of Henry early and infrequently this season as a part of one of many league’s most dynamic one-two working punches alongside Jackson. Sadly for the Ravens, the Chiefs prevailed in a 27-20 thriller that got here right down to the final play.

Baltimore scored the landing regardless of an in any other case sloppy opening drive. The Ravens had been flagged for 3 unlawful formation penalties en path to the landing, however managed to safe three first downs and the landing regardless of the setbacks.

The Ravens’ lead did not final lengthy. Kansas Metropolis responded with a quick-strike scoring drive of its personal capped by a 21-yard landing run from rookie speedster Xavier Worthy on the primary contact of his NFL profession.

The Chiefs went into halftime with a 13-10 lead and did not path once more because the Ravens’ last-ditch effort to tie the sport got here up painfully quick when an would-be Isaiah Doubtless landing was dominated out of bounds at the back of the top zone.