{"id":835855,"date":"2025-03-22T04:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/2025-nfl-draft-prospect-interview-andrew-henry-rb-university-of-new-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T04:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:12:42","slug":"2025-nfl-draft-prospect-interview-andrew-henry-rb-university-of-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/2025-nfl-draft-prospect-interview-andrew-henry-rb-university-of-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Andrew Henry, RB, University of New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football <\/p>\n<div>\n<article id=\"post-197888\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/nfldraftdiamonds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0980-1024x615.jpeg\" alt=\"Football Meet Andrew Henry, talented RB from the University of New Mexico. Discover his journey and aspirations in football.\"  ><figcaption>Meet Andrew Henry, a talented RB from the University of New Mexico. Discover his journey and aspirations in football.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name<\/strong>: Andrew Henry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Position<\/strong>: RB<\/li>\n<li><strong>College<\/strong>: University of New Mexico<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height<\/strong>: 5\u2019 10\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight<\/strong>: 200 lbs<\/li>\n<li><strong>X (Twitter)<\/strong>: @<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_andrewhenry?s=21\">_andrewhenry<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><strong>Instagram<\/strong>: @<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theandrewhenry?igsh=YXM2dGNlOHFhZXh2\">theandrewhenry<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What made you decide you wanted to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/nfldraftdiamonds.com\/2025\/03\/2025-nfl-draft-running-back-big-board\/\">football player<\/a>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t really say I decided, I would love to say God blessed me with an opportunity to play the game, it really found me at a young age and I played other sports but football spoke to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your favorite moments from your football life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would say the little league days when we would wake up early Saturday, sleep over with my teammates, car rides talking about all the things we would do that day and really just loving to ball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you looking to achieve as a football player going forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to just be my best at all time moving forward I just want to focus on being the best Andrew Henry that Andrew Henry can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could hang out with any football player past or present for a day, who and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barry Sanders I\u2019ve looked up to him my whole life and I would love to just sit and pick his brain about the game and the position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which one of your family members inspires you the most and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would say my mother and most will but my mom has showed me what it looks like to run your race with all your might even though you never know when the finish line will show up but when you see how hard she works you would think it\u2019s close and everything in life shows us otherwise, she still is the same person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favorite offensive scheme and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would say I love a spread offense where we really make the defense work and we can place weapons anywhere on the field and we just play back yard ball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should we know about Andrew Henry the person?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That I am hungry and I won\u2019t stop. It\u2019s bigger than the cheers and claps for me it\u2019s really about showing the world God is who they say he is and that\u2019s the beginning and the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What stands out about your film the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would say the thing that stands out the most of my ability to score no matter what way you want to score I can do that. That\u2019s on special teams and the pass game too, not just in the back field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you handle challenges both in life and on the football field?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been through a lot in my life and God has blessed me with a lot of mentors since I was a kid and I\u2019ve leaned there is never anything too tough for God so I just pray and get into the word and meditate on that and give it to God and move forward\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would a team get in a player like you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team is getting an inspiring young player when they get me I play with my whole heart and soul and that shows in everything from the weight room to practice to how I am outside of football just in my day to day\u00a0life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love the most about the game of football?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My ability to score from our own 1 yard line to the others teams 1 yard line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is the most underrated player you\u2019ve played with and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chandler Rogers (California), because Rogers is a top quarterback right now he can do what top quarterbacks do, make all the throws, great feel for the game and time management and he\u2019s just a baller.<\/p>\n<div itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Football Justin Berendzen\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2b29a576e0dfdd369510256e64e36847?s=100&#038;r=g\"  height=\"100\" width=\"100\" itemprop=\"image\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Writer\/Scout\/Interviewer for Draft Diamonds since January 2020. You can find me on X at @jrberendzen and Instagram at justinberendzen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nfldraftdiamonds.com\/2025\/03\/andrew-henry-2\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Justin Berendzen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Andrew Henry, a talented RB from the University of New Mexico. Discover his journey and aspirations in football. Name: Andrew Henry Position: RB College: University of New Mexico Height: 5\u2019 10\u201d Weight: 200 lbs X (Twitter): @_andrewhenry Instagram: @theandrewhenry What made you decide you wanted to be a football player?\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t really say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774,3790,32661],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-835855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-draft","8":"category-football","9":"category-prospect"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}