What’s Marshawn Lynch doing during coronavirus? Passing out Beast Mode masks, of course

So what’s Marshawn Lynch doing during this coronavirus lockdown?

Riding around on a cart passing out masks to people in his hometown of Oakland, Calif. Masks branded with his BeastMode apparel-company logo, that is.

Of course he is.

“Marshawn out here for the people, man,” a guy sitting in the sun at Oakland’s Lake Merritt says in a video posted online of Lynch’s COVID-19-themed philanthropy. “He gave us some Beast Mode masks.

“Appreciate you, ‘Shawn!”

The video was posted on social media Wednesday, Lynch’s 34th birthday.

Lynch is a free agent since the end of his cameo return to the Seahawks two days before Christmas. He rushed for three touchdowns in two playoff games—then advised younger players to “take care of y’all’s chicken” in an impromptu postgame press conference following Seattle’s season-ending loss at Green Bay.

Coach Pete Carroll has not ruled out Lynch returning to play for the Seahawks in 2020, and on another special deal where he’d only play in a limited number of important games.

This story was originally published April 23, 2020 at 1:33 PM.

Gregg Bell

The News Tribune

Gregg Bell is the Seahawks and NFL writer for The News Tribune. He is a two-time Washington state sportswriter of the year, voted by the National Sports Media Association in January 2023 and January 2019. He started covering the NFL in 2002 as the Oakland Raiders beat writer for The Sacramento Bee. The Ohio native began covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season of 2005. In a prior life he graduated from West Point and served as a tactical intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, so he may ask you to drop and give him 10. Support my work with a digital subscription