Ryan Tannehill, the quarterback for the Titans, will receive a four-year, $118 million contract for an average of $29.5 million annually and $62 million in guarantees. That comes from a 31-year-old who, at the start of the previous season, was supporting Marcus Mariotta and has only started 10 games for them.
Henry will likely receive the franchise tag in the interim, which will guarantee him a one-year contract worth about $10.3 million. Even if he signed a four-year, $5.4 million contract after being selected in the second round, that would still not provide him the guaranteed contract he has earned over the prior two years and would only place him as the fifth best paid running back overall.
Not in the NFL
With the exception of Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, arguably no player in the NFL was more important to their team than Derrick Henry last season. The Titans All-Pro running back led the league in attempts, yards and touchdowns and was the driving force in the Titans making the AFC Championship Game.
How will he be rewarded? By watching a teammate get an undeserved contract in free agency while he likely gets a franchise tag after playing four years on an undervalued rookie contract. Yeah, I’d be pissed if I were Henry.
Henry will never make as much money in his career as Tannehill did in that one contract (the biggest guarantee for a running back on a second contract is $28 million). He will make less money in the first five years of his career than Tannehill does in the upcoming campaign. Though disparities do exist in the NFL’s contractual hierarchy, as previously established, Henry has every reason to be dissatisfied with Tannehill’s most recent contract.
He has been working with the surgeon who performed the surgery to repair the Jones fracture in his right foot, placing a metal plate and screws, even though he said the treatment has essentially been the same.
Henry remarked, “He always tells me that when I work out, just so I am balancing my foot. I’m doing a lot of footwork, making sure that I am finding my toes.” “I feel good, and I’m making sure I’m ready by running hills and doing restricted running.”
What is the condition of his foot, in his opinion?
He asked, smiling, “How long has it been since I played?” “The foot feels good.”
It wasn’t an absurd query.
Of course, he’s
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