Auburn commit Alvin Henderson on track to hit 10,000 rush yards, would be first Alabama HS player to hit feat

It’s no secret Auburn Tigers commit Alvin Henderson is something special when it comes Alabama high school running backs exploding on the scene. But the Elba High School rushing star is about to hit a feat that would place him above the rest.

He’s just 264 yards from becoming the first Alabama high school player to reach 10,000 yards rushing – an achievement only seven other players nationally have hit so far.

As a player who has been averaging more than 200 yards per game in his last three seasons, including 270 this year, the record is just in his grasp.

But according to Elba High head coach Marc Sieving, the young star hasn’t been so focused on the record as he has been on winning games, he told Al.com.

“The most awesome thing to me is that Alvin doesn’t seem to care that much about it,” Sieving said. “That is what amazes me. With today’s kids, it would be so easy to be stuck up and arrogant about a record like this. He literally just wants to win games. There have been a lot of games where we get close to the goal line and Alvin tells me to give it to another guy. He did that last Friday night. That’s just the kind of person he is.”

Sieving wasn’t kidding either. When Henderson was asked about his goals, he relayed he is really were more focused on the team moving up together as a unit.

“My goals this summer were really just to try to help our team get back to where we were last season (state semifinals) or further even,” he said. “We had a lot of guys coming back, and I wanted to have a good year for the rest of the seniors and to show the younger guys what is possible when you put your mind to certain goals.”

Did someone say Saquon Barkley?

Saquon Barkley wanted the young guys to play instead of going for his record. What a teammate. @saquon | #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/tJi8waO7MY

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) October 21, 2024

Henderson did tell AL.com this week that breaking the record has always been a possibility in the back of his mind but didn’t become a forward thought to him until recently.

“When I was younger, my coaches told me that if I stayed focus, I would be able to accomplish some things,” he said. “My family and my coaches told me entering this year that if I had another season like I did last year (3,523 yards, 61 TDs) that I might be able to possibly break the record, but I really didn’t think much about it until two or three weeks ago.”

However, Henderson isn’t the first star with ties to the great state of Alabama to hit this achievement – you may remember a guy named Derrick Henry. Although Henry was a Florida high school legend out of Yulee High, he holds the high school national record with 12,144 rush yards and now currently rocks the field for the Baltimore Ravens.

Although Henderson is on track to break the record Friday versus Florala, if he does not, he will likely do it in the first round of the Class 1A playoffs. 

After hitting 10K what comes next? Henderson is on track to graduate from Elba High in December and will lose no time, reporting to Auburn in January. And it seems his odds to be an immediate work horse for the Tigers will be promising, according to Henderson via Al.com.

“Every time we meet with coach (Hugh) Freeze, he tells us we will be the bell cows along with the guys they added last year to get to Auburn back to where they are supposed to be,” he said. “That’s what we want to do.”

Anyone who can be brought into the same conversation regarding high school stats with Derrick Henry is one that deserves to be kept an eye on indeed.

Grab the popcorn folks, this is one player who is ready to run the future scene in Jordan-Hare.