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What Richard Sherman Can Teach Us About the NFL Draft

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Seattle Seahawks drafted Richard Sherman with the 154th pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, behind 24 other cornerbacks. 10 years later, Sherman is still punishing the league for letting him fall that far, and created a legacy that will one day send him to Canton. But what did everyone miss when they were evaluating Sherman in 2011? And why didn’t they see his potential? On the day of the 2021 NFL Draft, Domonique Foxworth explains what Richard Sherman, the prospect, can teach us about what we’ll see during these next three days of drafting...and everything we won’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dominique Foxworth, where does this whole story begin?

0:08.6

So Richard Sherman was a college football player, obviously, and he got invited to the

0:13.3

senior bowl after another player opted out.

0:16.2

Dominique Foxworth is a former NFL defensive back and current writer and commentator for the undefeated

0:22.9

and ESPN.

0:24.6

And he's in a situation just before halftime where Andy Dalton's playing quarterback of the

0:29.1

South team.

0:30.0

Richard Sherman is playing corner on the North team and they run a double move.

0:34.3

It's only seconds to go before the half.

0:36.0

So in that situation, you should stay back, keep everything in front of you, tackle it. Sherman bites on the double move. It's only seconds to go before the half, so in that situation, you should stay back,

0:38.3

keep everything in front of you, tackle it.

0:40.3

Sherman bites on the double move, receiver gets behind him.

0:43.3

Watch this.

0:44.3

He's going to jump with football.

0:45.3

How you're supposed to know better?

0:47.3

You don't break on anything there.

0:49.3

I hate to kill kicks for things, but that's so obvious.

0:52.3

You could have given up a touchdown to get there. Sherman actually makes up and kind of breaks up the pass, but he gets to the sideline,

1:00.0

and the coach of his team is Marvin Lewis, who is the head coach of the Bengals, and he

1:05.0

kind of rips in to Richard Sherman because the play that Sherman makes right there or doesn't make right there is a pretty

1:11.3

dumb one. You don't want to be that aggressive in that moment. So Marvin's kind of telling Richard

1:16.3

in some aggressive language that you can't play in the league if you're making dumb plays like that.

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