{"id":235986,"date":"2025-06-07T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=235986"},"modified":"2025-06-07T09:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:42:59","slug":"derrick-henry-adam-sandler-make-strange-wager-on-ravens-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/06\/07\/derrick-henry-adam-sandler-make-strange-wager-on-ravens-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Henry, Adam Sandler Make Strange Wager on Ravens Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry is a big Adam Sandler fan and could make his way into the theatrical world at this point next year. During a recent appearance on <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1930299514897760498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Dan Patrick Show<\/em><\/a>, Henry said Sandler was his favorite actor, to which Patrick said he would put Henry is a Sandler movie if he rushed for 2,000 yards in the upcoming season. Patrick was serious with this offer, as Adam Sandler himself responded to the post and confirmed the offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two thousand yards-plus this year not only gets you in a movie, but we&#8217;ll have a nice dinner together and talk about Dan Patrick&#8217;s facial hair and how hard it is for him to grow it,&#8221; Sandler said. &#8220;I love ya and keep it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_235988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235988\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-235988\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Ravens-Derrick-Henry-Adam-Sandler-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"Ravens Derrick Henry Adam Sandler\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Ravens-Derrick-Henry-Adam-Sandler-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Ravens-Derrick-Henry-Adam-Sandler-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Ravens-Derrick-Henry-Adam-Sandler-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Ravens-Derrick-Henry-Adam-Sandler-1536x1009.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Ravens-Derrick-Henry-Adam-Sandler-2048x1345.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-235988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan 19, 2025; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry (22) is helped up after scoring a touchdown during the third quarter against the Buffalo Bills in a 2025 AFC divisional round game at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dan you\u2019re a real one ! \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe &amp; <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSandler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AdamSandler<\/a> is da \ud83d\udc10\u203c\ufe0f I appreciate the extra motivation ! \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\ude24\ud83c\udfac <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Z2XFK8pP6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Z2XFK8pP6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ue10eDerrick Henry \ue13d\ue011 (@KingHenry_2) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingHenry_2\/status\/1931057039771599003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Derrick Henry, Adam Sandler Make Wager on Ravens 2025 Season<\/h2>\n<p>Derrick Henry is one of the game&#8217;s all-time great talents at the position and is one of nine players to record 2,000 rushing yards in a single season. While he hasn&#8217;t accomplished the feat since his dominant 2020 season, he came close in 2024. During his first season with the Ravens, Henry recorded 1,921 yards and a league-leading 16 rushing touchdowns on 325 carries. While these types of numbers would normally lead the league, he finished second in rushing yards to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/04\/saquon-barkley-eagles-running-back-dynasty-outlook-after-massive-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">Saquon Barkley of the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently signed to an extension, Derrick Henry should remain the unquestioned workhorse in this backfield and has a decent shot of earning a spot in the next Adam Sandler film. While Justice Hill is a fine change of pace back and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/06\/05\/im-back-ravens-injured-playmaker-ready-for-bounce-back-2025\/\" target=\"_self\">Keaton Mitchell is reportedly fully healthy<\/a>, Henry will continue to be the lifeblood of this rushing attack. Even though he&#8217;s entering his age-31 season, don&#8217;t be surprised if he leads the league in rushing next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Gregory Fisher &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry could appear in an Adam Sandler movie if he accomplishes one feat in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":235989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10],"tags":[33574,33575,596,1056,7638],"class_list":["post-235986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-ravens","tag-adam-sandler","tag-dan-patrick","tag-derrick-henry","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-ravens-featured"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235990,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235986\/revisions\/235990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}