Richard Sherman Net Worth

Richard Sherman net worth and salary: Richard Sherman is an American football cornerback who has a net worth of $40 million. He played for the Seattle Seahawks from 2011 to 2017. Before the 2018 season he joined the San Francisco, 49ers.

Richard Sherman was born in 1988 in Compton, California where he was a football and track star at Dominguez High School. He was also Salutatorian (ranked second academically) of his high school class. During his senior season in high school Richard had 1,030 all-purpose yards, and three punt returns for touchdowns. He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal, where he played wide receiver as a freshman and was named a Freshman All-American. Over the next two seasons Sherman caught 47 passes before a season ending knee injury in 2008. After his injury, Sherman was moved to cornerback and made 112 tackles in his final two seasons at Stanford. Richard was also a track star at Stanford with a specialty in the long jump and triple jump. He won the California state title in the triple jump with a 15.44 meter jump.

Richard Sherman was chosen 154th overall in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks. In the 2013 NFC Championship game, Richard Sherman told Erin Andrews "I'm the best corner in the game! When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you gonna get."

In May 2014, Richard Sherman signed a four-year $56 million contract extension with the Seahawks. $40 million of the deal is guaranteed. The deal will pay him $1.4 million salary in 2014 then an average of $11.5 million per year through 2018. Prior to the 2018 season, Richard signed a three-year $27 million contract with the 49ers. He also has a number of lucrative endorsement deals with companies like T-Mobile, Nike, Oberto, BODYARMOR, and Beats by Dre.