It's a safe bet that Richard Sherman will eventually enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is one of the best to ever play at his position and has been consistently good throughout his career.
Pro Football Focus shared a statistic on Monday that shows just how good Sherman has been over his career. The San Francisco 49ers cornerback is one of just two cornerbacks who have been targeted more than 250 times over the past decade and allowed a completion rate of less than 50 percent. The other is seven-time Pro Bowler and four-time first-team All-Pro Darrelle Revis.
Only 2 CBs were targeted 250+ times over the past decade and allowed a completion rate of less than 50%:
Richard Sherman 49.6%
— PFF (@PFF) May 11, 2020
Darrelle Revis 49.8% pic.twitter.com/oae4RUSsnV
Sherman finished the 2019 season with 61 tackles, three shy of his career-high, 11 passes defensed, three interceptions, and a score. He owns Pro Football Focus' highest coverage grade (90.5) and highest overall grade (90.3) among cornerbacks from last season, including the playoffs.
Richard Sherman: highest graded CBpic.twitter.com/MzXpLxzoJq
— PFF (@PFF) March 12, 2020
Sherman, a former Seattle Seahawk, five-time Pro Bowl selection, and three-time first-team All-Pro, was among four 49ers players, past and present, to be named to the NFL's All-Decade Team of the 2010s. He is entering the final year of the three-year contract he initially signed with San Francisco in 2018.
While the 49ers owned the No. 1 pass defense in 2019, Sherman shouldered much of the blame for the team's fourth-quarter collapse against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV.
"I gave up three grabs in that game. ... I could have played better," Sherman said last week. "I need to play better. When you hear them blaming Jimmy (Garoppolo), Jimmy doesn't play defense. We had a 10-point lead. We get the guy a stop, we win the game.
"So those are things you go into the offseason and know you have to correct, and you have to work hard. It pushes you to work hard. It pushes you to fight to do extra reps to make sure that you don't let the mistake happen again."
