Oct. 3: As Doug Kyed of Pro Football Focus reports (via Twitter), Sherman’s base salary checks in at just $1MM. He can earn up to $350K in per-game roster bonuses ($25K per game over the final 14 games of the season) and another $900K in playing-time incentives.
He will collect the first per-game roster bonus and start chipping away at his playing-time incentives tonight. Though Sherman only signed with Tampa Bay a few days ago, he reportedly picked up the defense more quickly than expected and will be in the starting lineup against the Pats (Twitter link via Rapoport).
Sep. 29: The Buccaneers have signed Richard Sherman, according to the cornerback himself (Twitter link). After a prolonged stint in free agency, Sherman gets a one-year, $2.25MM deal with $500K guaranteed (Twitter link via NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport).
“I went with the best offer I had, the best opportunity to go out there and put some tape on, to lead another group,” said the multiple-time Pro Bowler. “I feel comfortable and confident in my abilities to go out there and execute and help that team win…This was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”
Sherman, a five-time Pro Bowler, will the Bucs and old rival Tom Brady in time for this week’s game against the Patriots. The Bucs had a clear need after losing Sean Murphy-Bunting (elbow), Jamel Dean (knee), Carlton Davis (abdomen; ribs), and other key defensive backs in recent weeks. Dean should return sometime soon, but he probably won’t be ready for New England.
In 2019, Sherman’s last healthy season, he recorded 61 tackles and three interceptions. Then, his 2020 was sidetracked by a calf injury, limiting him to just five games. Fortunately, Sherman is said to be 100% healthy and down 15 pounds from last year.
To make room for Sherman on the roster, the Bucs have placed wide receiver Scotty Miller (turf toe) on injured reserve (Twitter link via Rapoport).
Didn’t this guy literally have a mental breakdown and want to commit suicide just a month or two ago?
Yeah, what happened to his legal situation and the league discipline resulting from it?!
That’s the biggest question. League has to be consistent.
Also, is he mentally and emotionally okay? If the league really cares about it’s players.
Non-issue. Sherman has been picking up injuries quite easily the last few years. He’s unlikely to last more than five games. He’s probably on league minimum or something close with a signing bonus (allowing Sherman to pay off some pressing lifestyle bills without selling off whatever assets he has).
That’s a lot of negative assumptions.
It’s good to see that Bruce Arians is full of crap when it comes to domestic violence. He takes a stand and talks a big game when his team is a middle of the road team in 2014, but has no problem welcoming Sherman to the team when it suits him to try to win another title.
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Sherman didn’t hit anyone.. do research before acting like he did
Not for lack of trying. He was busting down the door trying to get in when his in law hit him with some pepper spray and pulled a gun out to defense himself. It took the K9 latching on to him to slow him down and not before getting physical with a policeman. His behavior that night at that house and with the vehicle certainly warrants league discipline. Total joke to see some of the suspensions coming out of the league and then nothing for this guy?!
“He’s trying to leave now. In the house, he’s being aggressive,” said Ashley Sherman to dispatchers. “He’s wrestling with my uncle. He’s threatening to kill himself. He sent text messages to friends saying he was going to hang himself.”
In a police report obtained by the The Associated Press, Sherman’s father-in-law, Raymond Moss, armed himself with a handgun and pepper-sprayed Sherman to protect his family.
Moss said, according to the police report, that Sherman partially broke in the door by ramming it with his shoulder, while calling out, “Come through, Ray!” in a threatening manner.
“The family began to yell in fear,” Moss told police, according to the report. “I used pepper spray on Sherman’s face through the partially opened door as he was still banging and attempting to gain entry. I told him to stop. I armed myself with my handgun at this time fearing for the safety of myself and my family.”
In the 911 call recordings, Ashley Sherman is heard urging her husband not to leave, telling dispatchers he was a danger to himself.
It was then that she asked dispatchers to intercept Richard Sherman’s car before he got to Redmond.
Later, a man described as Ashley Sherman’s uncle called 911, telling police Richard Sherman cut his wife’s car off in traffic as she was following him in her car.
“The wife is trying to leave,” he said in the 911 recording. “He’s following her. He’s intoxicated. He’s driving, and I’m following them to make sure she’s safe.”
He also told dispatchers that Richard Sherman was making threats of violence to his wife.
“He told her if the kids aren’t in the car, he was going to hurt her,” the uncle said.
Do your own research and listen to one of the 911 calls, his own wife said he got physical with a family member. There’s plenty there from that night that led to suspensions for other players on the years.
We need more research from you.
How many former All-Pros does this give the Bucs? Ten?
Shaq Barrett, Richard Sherman, Lavonte David, Ndamukong Suh, Jason Pierre-Paul, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Rob Gronkowski, Antonio Brown, Tom Brady…are there any more?
It’d be interesting to see how many combined Pro Bowls this team has, too.
To be fair everyone else can still play at a high level. Sherm is past his prime DB that should be at SS
His #’s don’t say he is past his prime. He was rated top 15 in 2019 top 5 in 2018. He was hurt last year.
I agree, he’s past his prime, but Sherman is still effective. And on that defense, effective is all that’s necessary. I don’t think I can recall a team as stacked on both sides of the ball as this year’s Bucs, though whether that translates to on field perfection will be seen in February.
Probably came down to the Bucs and the Mean Machine, and I guess he went with Brady over Sandler.
On a serious note: man are the Bucs unlikable. They’re my new least favorite team, I think.
He ain’t mad bro!
“ Lead another group” that will go over well with the Bucs clubhouse. Was he so drunk last year when they crushed the Chiefs and really don’t need his kind of leadership. On second thought bring him in and let him create a bad locker room with the other nut job AB in there.
You mean nutjob AB that has been a model citizen in Tampa since he has been there. Don’t be a judgemental price when you don’t know what you are talking about.
Just because someone can behave when he/she is successful does not mean he/she is not a nutjob. I think we all know that AB acts a lot differently when he is winning than when he is losing.
He’s was on Pittsburgh for quite awhile, New England and Tampa, never really been with a loser. Bottom line he is a bad character person, and if being unable to handle adversity is anything he’ll have a hell of a time in retirement when this is all gone.
He imploded with the Raiders so fast with so many bizarre things going on he never gave them a chance. Who can forget his frozen feet and outdated helmet and holding the team hostage over that thing?
By “losing”, I didn’t mean on the field necessarily. A.B. wanted to play with Brady and on a loaded team to win a ring. He got what he wanted, so he’s behaving, by all accounts. When he wasn’t getting what he wanted, he behaved much differently.
THIS guy is going to “put some tape on and lead another group”?
Time for a reality check Ricky.
A lot of players never lose their confidence as they age.
Most players don’t lose their mind as they age.