NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Big second contracts for running backs are dangerous, conventional wisdom has come to tell us. They wear down. They get hurt. They drop off a cliff. The production of the second deal rarely matches the production of the first.
These thoughts hang in the air along with the fate of Derrick Henry with the Titans.
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