Instead of having access to Alabama’s state-of-the-art weight room, Jared Mayden continued his pre-draft training earlier this week in a place with far fewer exercise options.

His living room.

It’s what the former Crimson Tide safety had to settle for — a couple long stretching sessions and a workout that consisted of pushups, ab work and some dips that Mayden used his sofa to get done.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty right now,” said Mayden, who led Alabama with four interceptions last season. “But the only thing that I know that I can control is just staying in shape.”

As of a week ago, Mayden was still prepping for Alabama’s pro day.

It was supposed to be the Texas native’s chance to work out in front of NFL teams after not being invited to the NFL scouting combine.

Now, he won’t get that chance.

It’s part of the complicated and challenging reality for Mayden and many other non-combine invitees during this ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

With pro days being canceled, their primary shot at impressing NFL evaluators prior to the NFL draft has been eliminated.

It’s left Mayden and others trying to figure out an alternate means to improving their draft stock while also — for players like Mayden — now having to find a new place to work out.

“I was working out at the school,” Mayden said. “But on Friday, they closed the school down. They took away fingerprint access (to the football complex) and pretty much everything is closed, including the gym. So I’ve really just been talking to my agent and trying to figure out what’s the next thing to do.”

With Alabama closed, Mayden’s plan is to go home to Texas and get workouts in with his personal trainer, Clay Mack.

With Mack, Mayden will essentially go through his own pro day workout, tape it and send that video out to NFL teams so that evaluators can at least see him going through the drills he would have performed at the Tide’s pro day workout.

That’s really the only option for now.

“I’m pretty sure everyone’s probably coming to the same conclusion, that the only thing that you can do is just videotape it,” Mayden said. “That’s the only way teams are going to see you. But it’s a good idea. It’s really one of the only things that you can do for teams to be able to see what you have going on. So I’m probably just going to send a raw cut of clips of just raw video of me doing drills to the teams, showing them that it’s not edited, so they have that.”

It’s less than ideal, especially since Mayden was expecting to post a pro day 40 time in the 4.3s that could have helped his draft stock.

Still, he’s fortunately in a less challenging position than many others who weren’t invited to the scouting combine.

Unlike some of those other players, Mayden is already very much on the radar for NFL teams.

In addition to the exposure he got while starting for Alabama, Mayden also got a chance to perform in front of NFL evaluators at the Senior Bowl in late January and received good feedback for his work at both safety and cornerback.

Also, evaluators already know he’s fast after timing him in the 4.4s at the Tide’s junior pro day last spring.

The main key now will just be maintaining that speed, which should be easier now that he doesn’t have to settle for simply working out in his living room.

“Every team I’ve spoken to has a draftable grade on him,” Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy said. “It came as a shock to me that he didn’t receive a combine invite. But those go out before the Senior Bowl and he had a really good Senior Bowl week and took some really good reps outside at corner. And he ran 4.47, 4.46 (in the 40) last year at the junior pro day in Tuscaloosa, so everyone knows he can run. So he’s not in as bad of shape as some of these other guys that haven’t gotten a workout.”

Matt Zenitz is an SEC football reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mzenitz.