2025 NFL Draft Scouting Report: TreVeyon Henderson

Last Updated: 9/14/2024

Career Stats

Summary 

TreVeyon Henderson is another impressive running back emerging in Columbus for the Buckeyes. Henderson exploded onto the scene as a freshman in 2021, rushing for over 1,200 yards and helping lead the Buckeyes to a College Football Playoff berth. Unfortunately, we did not get to see the best of Henderson in 2022, as he battled nagging injuries. In a bounceback season in 2023, we saw Henderson amass over 900 yards and 11 scores, though he left the coaching staff wanting more. As a result, they went out and brought in Quinshon Judkins to supplement Henderson.

Henderson marries the power and speed game perfectly, leaving defenders on their toes often. His quick feet and vision allow him to overcome his lack of home-run speed to gash defenses. He is also a master of deception, manipulating defenders at will using his change of speed and weaponizing leverage points. This allows him to draw defenders out of position opening up huge cut-back lanes — which we see consistently on his tape.

He is incredibly patient behind the line of scrimmage, allowing his blocks to develop and defenders to overcommit opening up running lanes. Once they get drawn in it’s all over, as Henderson uses his lateral agility to cut it back off them and is downfield in a blink of an eye. Once he decides on a hole lookout! He gets downhill quickly with a low center of gravity and a ton of pop behind his pads. He is extremely good at getting lower than the defenders and is looking to initiate the contact at the tackle point often falling forward for a few extra yards.

Henderson does not have the strongest contact balance after contact, but it’s not terrible and can be improved. He also leaves a lot to be desired in the elusive part of the game, he doesn’t often win one-on-one open-field matchups with a juke move or at all. He also doesn’t offer us the track speed many people look for once he is in the open field.

Additionally, we see Henderson offer some decent things as a pass catcher. I wouldn’t write home about his hands, but they are average. He also does not possess an extensive route tree, but he can run everything the NFL will likely ask him to. I expect to see some improvement here.

Strengths

• Quick feet
• Vision
• Powerful runner
• Patient
• Acceleration
• Solid hands
• Manipulation of leverage and speed
• Lateral agility/movement            

Weaknesses

• Elusiveness
• Lacks home-run speed
• Limited route tree
• Contact balance

Honors and Awards

• First-team all-Big Ten (coaches and media polls) (2023)
• Honorable mention All-Big Ten Conference (2022)
• Second-team All-Big Ten (2021)
• Freshman All-American (ESPN, The Athletic, 247Sports, Pro Football Focus) (2021)

Athletic Testing

• 40-yard dash: TBD
• Vertical: TBD
• Broad Jump: TBD
• Three-cone: TBD
• Shuttle: TBD
• Bench: TBD

NFL Role Prediction

Complementary starter 

Scheme Fit

Gap/Interior Zone

Fantasy Outlook

Henderson offers enough to become a true three-down player but hasn’t proven to handle a full workload over the past few seasons. I wouldn’t rule out him becoming a focal point in a rushing attack, but it seems unlikely. His best chance to produce points will be in an explosive offense that will allow him to get a plethora of red zone touches. If not, he may become a yearly RB3 with upside.

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