NFL Draft
2/12/25
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TreVeyon Henderson 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Ohio State Buckeyes RB
Height: 5100 (Unofficial)
Weight: 208lbs (Unofficial)
Year: Senior
Pro Comparison: TBD
Scouting Overview
Ohio State Buckeyes running back TreVeyon Henderson is a productive, well-rounded runner who should offer some level of appeal to most offensive systems. Henderson offers vision, sharp-cut ability, and home run-hitting ability in a compact frame, and his passing down profile is that of an NFL contributor quickly upon his entry into the league.
Henderson’s injury history may keep him from ever becoming a full-time featured player at the position, but as needed in spurts, Henderson has the versatility to be a hot hand that gets fed the football in volume. He’d be a valuable part of any rotation.
2025 NFL Combine Results
| Position | Name | School | 40-Yard Dash | 10-Yard Split | Broad Jump | Vertical Jump | 3-Cone Drill | 20-Yard Shuttle | Bench Press |
| RB | TreVeyon Henderson | Ohio State | 4.43 | 1.52 | 128 | 38.5 |
Positives
- Boasts explosive open-field burst to tear apart pursuit angles on the second level
- Possesses an excellent track record in pass protection to contribute on passing downs
- Light, rapid foot fire allows him to make subtle track adjustments as he presses the line of scrimmage
Negatives
- Early disruption can force extra cuts that create some avoidable minus runs
- Sufficient pass catcher out of the backfield with just eight targets beyond five yards of the line of scrimmage
- Has had an extensive injury history the past few seasons when workload opportunities have risen
Background
Henderson is from Hopewell, VA, and played high school football for Hopewell HS. There, he was a standout 5-star recruit (247 Sports) who was ranked among the top recruits in the entire country. Henderson, in addition to his play on the gridiron, was a sprinter in the 100m (10.94s personal best). He was named Gatorade’s Virginia Player of the Year in 2019, and he collected offers from just about every major program in the country before committing to play at Ohio State.
Henderson joined the Buckeyes as a member of their 2021 recruiting class and exploded onto the scene as a freshman. He averaged 96 yards a game while being voted a Freshman All-American across 13 games. His production dipped while missing nearly half of the season in 2022 due to a broken bone in his foot, and then nagging injuries cost him more time in 2023. The arrival of Quinshon Judkins in the Buckeyes backfield in 2024 helped keep Henderson fresh and on the field for all 16 games — a cautionary tale for Henderson’s NFL role.
He finished his college career with First-Team All-Big Ten (2023), Second-Team All-Big Ten (2021), and Third-Team All-Big Ten (2024) honors.
Tale Of The Tape
Henderson is a gifted player with a number of qualities that have him primed to be a productive NFL player. Playing on a talented Ohio State offense, Henderson was the best version of himself during the bookends of his college career. As a freshman, he posted 19 touchdowns on 210 touches. As a senior, he posted a career-high 7.6 yards per touch.
As a runner, Henderson is well-built and offers a low center of gravity and explosive burst. He projects well to gap schemes, thanks to that burst to explode through holes and break pursuit angles on the second level. Simultaneously, he projects well to zone schemes that allow him to press the line of scrimmage with patience before using his cut ability to stick his foot in the ground and pop against the grain.
Chip Kelly’s scheme in 2024 offered a diverse run attack with an assorted variation of inside and outside zone concepts, including counters, pin and pull, crack toss, duo, and inside zone. Henderson illustrated good competence in these schemes and was afforded a wonderful final audition for the pros.
Henderson showcases good but not elite contact balance, and there are times when he’s forced to cut laterally, and he can be chopped down by pursuing defenders without heavy contact. But then you get glimpses of Henderson running downhill and putting his pads firmly into a late-fitting safety, and he can run through them and finish a punishing run.
Henderson’s contact balance is best described as slippery — he’ll slide off tackle challenges and effectively run his feet to adjacent space to slide off the challenge and buy himself extra yardage.
In the passing game, Henderson is a modest pass catcher who has not been overly active beyond the line of scrimmage. Most of his targets are within five yards of the line as basic checkdowns, slide flats out of run action, and rails and swings that carry him wide and immediately into the flat. He isn’t frequently used as a screen option; he’s credited by TruMedia with just a handful of target opportunities across the last three seasons in this regard, but he did bust a 75-yard score against Texas off a delayed screen in the final minute just before halftime.
He’s a much more robust player in pass protection. Henderson showcases good eyes, strong framing, an understanding of full protection assignments, and the aggressiveness to step up and deliver stiff blows to linebackers in protection.
He’s a pro-ready pass protector and one of the draft's best backs in this regard. Henderson doesn’t take the cheap way out and cut free runners frequently, instead showing the ability to keep his head up and properly punch in the strike zone while maintaining the depth of the pocket.
Henderson has zero career fumbles on 667 career touches, giving him another notch in his proverbial belt in the ancillary elements of the position.
Between the pass protection profile, ball security, explosiveness, and vision as a ball carrier, Henderson projects as an NFL starter and can be a viable fit in almost any scheme. However, his durability looms as a potential threat to an optimal NFL career.
How will Henderson survive if put in a position to be a primary ball carrier? He’s surpassed 175 touches once in four seasons and dealt with injuries in 2022 and 2023.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Henderson offers universal scheme appeal, but his vision and quick feet will play quite well in a zone-heavy rushing system. There, he can make reactive cuts and set up second-level defenders to create creases to attack in the running game.
Henderson’s pass protection profile presents him as a potential early-down option before he cedes reps to a more profound pass catcher.
Grade: 77.00/100.00, Second Round Value
Big Board Rank: TBD
Position Rank: TBD
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