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RB TreVeyon Henderson (Official Thread)

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HENDERSON ADDRESSES SPRING ELIGIBILITY
It's looking inevitable that TreVeyon Henderson won't get to see any live game action this year. The last time he played a real game, Henderson and his Hopewell (Va.) High School teammates completed a 15-0 state championship season in a 35-7 win over Lord Botetourt on Dec. 14, 2019, which feels more like nine years ago than nine months with everything that's happened since.

And now, after the NCAA's Football Oversight Committee recommended to the Division I Council that early enrollees should not be eligible to play in college games during a winter or spring season, it's looking unlikely that Henderson – who is enrolling in January even though Virginia postponed its high school football season to the spring – will play in another game until the fall of 2021.

“Really, I don’t know how to feel about that. It is what it is,” Henderson told Eleven Warriors. “I can’t control what the NCAA does and how they make their decisions. I just hope that Ohio State is able to play this fall instead of the spring.

“(Ryan Day) was definitely fighting very hard for us to be able to play. He always told the class that if we’re able to play, be ready and be prepared. ... I’m pretty disappointed because I don’t have a season so now it’s crazy. I was looking forward to playing in the spring if they were playing. But it is what it is now. It’s very frustrating, but at the end of the day it is what it is. I’m not gonna stress myself out over it.”

Similar to how fellow 2021 commit Kyle McCord is taking an in-stride approach to the NCAA's decision, Henderson's response demonstrates his maturity. But that doesn't mean he isn't concerned about a 20-plus-month layoff between playing in games. Getting used to contact again will be one of the biggest issues.

“I mean, just not being hit for a matter of time, for a year without contact and stuff like that, I know that it’ll be a huge difference for me when I finally step back on the field because I haven’t been hit in so long,” Henderson said. “That’s what I’ve been thinking about, for real, is those hits I’ll be taking soon will be so different because I haven’t been hit in such a long time.”

Like his future linebacker teammate Reid Carrico told us a week ago, however, the best you can do in 2020 is stay positive.

“Just trying to stay positive, yep, I feel that,” Henderson said.

OU FLIP RUMORS
Ever since he committed to the Buckeyes in March, there have continued to be Internet rumors and scuttlebutt without any real legs that Henderson might flip to Oklahoma. Those rumors probably aren't going to stop, but we asked Henderson if he wanted to take some time to address them.

“I’ve been hearing rumors like that,” Henderson said. “I’m always just trying to figure who those rumors are coming from. I’m a Buckeye. I’ve been hearing these rumors forever. I don’t comment on them because there’s no reason to. You can see just by my Twitter that I’m a Buckeye.”...:gagnam:



Instead of putting energy into message board nonsense, Henderson is focusing on his training – Eleven Warriors caught him in a rare off day during Friday's interview – and potentially getting over to Ohio State to check out the campus, on his own dime and without visiting with any Buckeye coaches. Previously, Henderson told us he was hoping to get to Columbus sometime this fall, and he's still hopeful something will be arranged.

“I’ll probably take a trip down there, if I can, with my mom whenever she’s able to,” Henderson said. “I don’t have anything planned out. I’ve still gotta work on all that.”
 
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HENDERSON READY FOR OHIO STATE WEIGHT PROGRAM
If we’ve ever wanted to relate more to a five-star running back prospect, here’s our chance:

TreVeyon Henderson is a self-described lover of junk food. Pizza and fried food, especially.

Of course, here’s where we’re different from him: He never gains any weight from it because he works out so hard that he burns off all the calories he intakes when he does eat poorly.

Soon enough, though, whatever junk food Henderson is taking on will be a thing of the past. As an early enrollee to Ohio State, the Buckeyes’ blue-chip running back commit has just a little more than three months left in his high school years before he hits the Columbus campus. Once he gets here – and maybe even a little before then – it’ll be time to crack down on any unhealthy eating habits.



That’s one of the biggest things about the Buckeye program that he’s looking forward to the most is finally getting into Mickey Marotti, Quinn Barham and Co.’s strength and conditioning and nutrition program.

“I can’t wait to get in there,” Henderson told Eleven Warriors. “Just to see how he’s gonna work with me and transition me. The nutritional side is definitely gonna be the thing with me. That’s what I’m most interested in because I’m a picky eater. That’s definitely the thing that’s gonna get me the most.”

Just like it is with most freshmen who enter the program – like Paris Johnson Jr. shooting up from 290 pounds to 308 pounds after his first two months, or the changes in the bodies of guys like Gee Scott Jr. and Ryan Watts – Henderson is well aware that his body will change fast once he gets there.

In the meantime, Henderson isn’t taking any breaks when it comes to hitting the gym or the field – unless, of course, it’s a rest day – and he’s focused on doing full-body workouts.

Full-body workouts are popular among athletes, like Henderson, who are focused on gaining strength (and not mass), staying better conditioned, avoiding injury and staving off fat gain. That’s opposed to body-part split workouts (i.e. chest day, back day, etc.) that focus on building mass. (In news that you absolutely don’t care about, your favorite Eleven Warriors recruiting writer has been transitioning from body-part split workouts to full-body workouts and it just … sucks. In a good way.)

“Every time I hit the gym, I do a full-body workout so I don’t put too much stress on any one part of my body,” Henderson said. “It’s working out great. I’m 205 right now, and I’m just staying around that. I don’t go above 205. I’m gonna get in there and let them do the rest.”
 
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ALL-AMERICAN BOWL PRESENTATION
And since we’re on the subject of Henderson, the nation’s No. 2-ranked running back will be taking virtual center stage at 8 tonight, in addition to future teammate Reid Carrico, in the latest episode of NBC Sports’ Road to the Dome series in which several All-American Bowl athletes are being honored with a jersey presentation ceremony.



Henderson and Carrico are the latest in Ohio State’s 2021 class to be honored with the presentation, as Jordan Hancock and Donovan Jackson were featured in episodes one and two, respectively.

More Buckeyes will be featured later on, as they currently have a nationwide-best 11 commits who have announced they will play in the All-American Bowl.
 
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HENDERSON FEELS “GREAT” ABOUT BUCKS’ SHOT WITH DAVIS

As alluded to, one of the other critical aspects of the Buckeye Bash was getting a chance for Davis to get around this group. The Pittsburgh safety, ranked No. 2 at the position nationally and No. 53 overall in the class, has been to Ohio State nearly a dozen times. But this was a big chance for a group of guys that has done a fantastic job of peer recruiting – Mark Pantoni said in April that it’s up there as one of the best group of commits to do so that he can remember – to do so once again.

The feeling coming out of the weekend is that it was a success and that Ohio State has itself in a prime position to pull Davis from Penn State, LSU and Georgia as we wind closer to a Nov. 7 commit date and the weekend before Davis is set to visit LSU.

“Derrick was with us, and he was having a great time too,” Henderson said. “I think we made a great impression on him, but we didn’t get to see the campus so I don’t know what that did. I don’t know if he went to see it himself.”

There was no pushing or prodding for Davis to commit. That’s not really their style on anybody they recruit.

“We were pretty much chilling on him. We weren’t trying to pressure him or anything,” Henderson said. “He’s a good dude. He was very interactive with us, all the commits, and he’s a great dude.

“The way he was talking, I feel like he was more of a city person. Columbus got a great city. I feel like the city fits him very well. Shoot, my confidence level is high, for real.”

After they left High Street, most of the group (including Davis) went back to Sawyer’s house to watch more of the games, with a five-TV setup in the living room and kitchen. The game they, of course, flipped on? Penn State vs. Indiana. There was no ribbing, however, not even of the good-natured kind.

“We watched the game, he saw how Ohio State played, and we watched the Indiana-Penn State game and he saw what Indiana did to them,” Henderson said. “That game pretty much spoke for itself. He just knew what’s up. He knew what was up as soon as he saw them take that L.”
 
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