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Fresh off a perfectly timed breakout season in which he led the NFL with 1,540 rushing yards and 16 rushing touchdowns, Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry is slated to hit free agency in March.
And now that the Titans' surprisingly successful season has come to an end one stop short of Super Bowl LIV, we can start to look ahead at the case made by Henry in recent months to become the highest-paid running back in the league.
The 2016 second-round pick just turned 26, and his light workload from his first three seasons—he carried the ball just 167 times per year on average before running it a league-high 303 times in 2019—could bode well for his chances of sustaining his Pro Bowl-level play for several seasons to come.