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Emotional Derrick Henry laments Tennessee’s loss: ‘I’ll definitely shed a couple of tears’
By Keith Farner
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Former Alabama star RB Derrick Henry became the catalyst of the Tennessee Titans’ playoff run this season, a winning streak that ended Sunday with a loss in the AFC Championship at Kansas City.
But that’s perhaps why it’s difficult for Henry, who told Turron Davenport of ESPN that it’s tough because of the people in the organization.
“I’ll definitely shed a couple of tears,” said Henry, who finished with 19 carries for 69 yards and a touchdown. “Just because I love my teammates. I love playing football, I love competing and I love my teammates. Those guys helped me get through a lot.”
The Titans have 19 players with expiring contracts, including Henry, and so it will likely be a different team when the 2020 regular season begins. But that’s not what Henry wanted to talk about in the aftermath of Sunday’s loss.
“Throughout the whole season, you have to stick together through all the adversity,” Henry said. “We have a lot of great guys in the locker room. It’s football, you know the locker room is going to change. Right now, we just lost a game. I am not even thinking about no contracts or things like that. When that time comes, I am sure it will get worked out.”
Kansas City limited the Titans offense down the stretch as Henry didn’t record a carry in the fourth quarter.
“(I) feel like as a team we stayed relentless, kept believing in each other, and that speaks volumes to the character of everyone in that room as a football player, and we just came up short,” Henry said. “That’s a great team. Wish the outcome could have been different.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
