Precautions and restrictions associated with the coronavirus pandemic have scrambled the first week of free agency in the NFL. But they didn’t prevent the Tennessee Titans from using their franchise tag on running back Derrick Henry or keep Henry from working out in preparation for the 2020 season.

While Henry is staying out of the gym, he’s still getting his workout – with the emphasis on “out.” A new video shows Henry exercising in a Dallas parking lot.

To keep Henry from entering free agency unrestricted on Wednesday, the Titans placed their non-exclusive franchise tag on the NFL’s 2019 rushing leader on Monday, virtually assuring the former Alabama All-American will be back with Tennessee for the 2020 season.

Henry still can negotiate with other NFL teams, but the Titans have the right to match any offer sheet that the running back receives. If it doesn’t, Tennessee would get two first-round draft choices from the team that signs Henry.

TENNESSEE TITANS TAG DERRICK HENRY

In his fourth NFL season, Henry led the league with 1,540 yards and 16 touchdowns on 303 rushing attempts in the regular season as he earned his first Pro Bowl invitation and received All-NFL recognition from the Pro Football Writers of America. He also was the leading rusher in the postseason, with 446 yards and two touchdowns on 83 carries in three playoff games.

A year after recording the second 99-yard run from scrimmage in NFL history, Henry became the only player with two games in the same postseason with at least 175 rushing yards, and he accomplished it in back-to-back contests. He also became the only player in NFL history with at least 180 rushing yards in three consecutive games.

The tag gives the Titans until July 15 to work out a long-term deal with Henry. If not, he could play the 2020 season for the franchise-tag value of $10.278 million.

That salary would be the fifth-highest for an NFL running back in 2020, based on current contracts, behind the Dallas Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott ($19.8 million), New York Jets’ Le’Veon Bell ($13.469 million), Los Angeles Rams’ Todd Gurley ($13.05 million) and Houston Texans’ David Johnson ($11.156 million). The Texans obtained Johnson earlier this week in a trade with the Arizona Cardinals.

Henry’s four-year rookie contract, signed after the Titans selected him in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft, was worth a total of $5.408 million.

Some of Henry’s income apparently has gone into his fondness for basketball star Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26. The celebrity jeweler ZoFrost recently shared via Instagram a piece for Henry that features Bryant’s logo entwined by a snake, representing the “Mamba mentality,” a phrase used in the header of Henry’s Instagram page. TMZ Sports reported the value of the chain as $85,000.

Henry won the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Player of the Year at Alabama in 2015, when he set SEC single-season records with 2,219 rushing yards and 28 rushing touchdowns for the Crimson Tide’s CFP national championship team.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @AMarkG1.

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