Ohio State RB TreVeyon Henderson has bad news for Big Ten in 2023

Running back TreVeyon Henderson appeared to be the next big thing for Ohio State as a freshman.

Unfortunately, a fractured sesamoid bone in his foot basically derailed the entirety of his sophomore campaign in Columbus. He went from 183 times for 1,248 yards and 15 touchdowns as a freshman to rushing just 107 times for 571 yards and six touchdowns as a sophomore. It was bad enough that he was shut down before the Buckeyes' College Football Playoff game against Georgia.

While 2022 was undoubtedly disappointing for Henderson, he's back in spring ball for OSU. Now 10 practices in...he's already feeling better.

“I feel great. I feel like I'm back to myself," Henderson said, via Eleven Warriors. "I started doing some individual work, but they still want to keep me out of team work just to be safe. When I come back, they want me to come back for good. I feel like I'm 100 percent. I'm running full speed, I'm back to cutting, so I'm feeling great now.”

Henderson's foot injury was bad, but he wasn't shut down until the CFP, so it looked like he had hit a sophomore slump rather than what was true: He was actually playing very hurt.

“Basically I couldn't push off that whole last season. Every time I tried to push off I was basically refracturing that bone,” he explained. “And then I tore some ligaments and tendons. So my foot was basically beat up. … It was moments where sometimes I'd be hopping around or it would take me a while to really hit the hole. And that's just because I knew that if I would plant my foot, that I would basically refracture that bone. Even when I was getting tackled, like at the beginning of every game, as soon as I'd get tackled, I'd basically retweak my foot."

Henderson admitted that the injury was playing mental games with him, which meant that he was constantly thinking about whether or not the foot would hinder him rather than thinking about actually playing football.

He barely practiced for the Buckeyes, and the injury did take a mental toll on him. With that said, the 5-foot-10, 214-pound running back is ready to put 2022 behind him in an effort to help the Buckeyes make it back to the CFP once again.

“I got a lot of expectations for myself. I hold myself to a high standard, and I definitely didn't play up to that standard, my standard, last year,” Henderson said. “So this year, I just want to play up to my standard again. I feel like I'm back to myself and I'm ready. I'm ready, whenever the coaches and the trainers let me free, I'm gonna do whatever I can.”