Richard Sherman is popular for being an American former football cornerback player who has played for about 11 seasons in the National Football League.
The football star has been active since he was younger and he has been doing excellently well in his career.
He has been fully involved and dedicated. He is an outspoken personality with his constant trash-talk which has made him one of the best NFL players of his time.
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Richard Sherman Biography
He was born on March 30, 1988, in Compton, California, United States. He grew up with his parents and other members of his family.
He is currently 37 years old and he just marked his 37 birthday on March 30, 2025. His family and friends were in attendance.
Richard Sherman attended Manuel Dominguez High School which happens to be the best in Compton, California and he was rated as a scholar athlete.
He happens to be one of the best students as he was ranked as the second best in his class and he also graduated with a GPA of 4.2.
He was voted by his fellow students as the most likely male student to succeed and they were not far from the truth.
He came out successfully and he was also a member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
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The 37-year-old star player later went to Standard University for his degree in communications and he also went further for his master.
He stands about 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs about 88kg in weight. His zodiac sign is Aries, just like his star sign he is very bold ambitious, and very serious about everything he does.
Sherman Career
He started his career while he was in high school, where he started playing some minor games. At first he had an interest in track and field and also football.
He joined the school team and as a senior in 2005, he was already accounted for 1030 all-purpose yards, and this includes 870 yards on 28 catches and three punt returns for touchdowns.
Richard Sherman was doing so well that he helped his school, Dominguez to a CIF Southern Section Division III title with a 41-14 win over Oaks Notre Dame.
Sherman was a member of the school’s track team and he was also named a USA Today All-American.
He won the California State title in the Triple jump, with a remarkable meter of 15.44. He was ranked triple jumper in California in 2005.
However, this automatically qualifies him to the finals of the state meet in the 110-meter hurdles, in which he became third with a time of 13.99. He did finished sixth in the long jump with an awesome Mark of 7.25 meters.
Richard Sherman began his pre-draft on January 29, 2011, when he played in the 2011 Senior Bowl and his performance was okay and well-received.
He later participated in Stanford’s pro day and this made him improve his combined performance. Sherman was also projected to be selected anyway by the majority of the NFL draft experts and scouts.
The 37-year-old played for so many teams before he finally signed a one-year contract with the Tempa Bay Buccaneers on September 29, 2021, and the deal was worth $2.25 million.
After week 7 with them, he served as the Defensive Backs Coach for the team during game and in practice that week because to Defensive Backs Coach was ineligible due to COVID-19 protocols.
He finished the season in just five games with three starts probably that was because he just came back to the field after being placed on injury.
Who is Sherman’s Wife?
He is officially married to his long-term girlfriend Ashley Moss whom they have been dating since his college days.
Sherman and his girlfriend, Ashley welcomed their first son together on January 5, 2015, four days after Super Bowl XLIX.
After the birth of their first child, the couple got engaged in June 2015 and later got married on March 28, 2018.
Ashley has been helping her husband in making some of the decisions and she is also a supportive partner and a caring mother as well.
She is the kind of woman every man would love to have in their life. She is also a home keeper who is always seen at the stadium watching and cheering her husband.
Ashley and her husband have encouraged lots of family and they are also seen as a role model to so many couples.
Richard Sherman Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of about $40 million as a professional football cornerback player in 2025.
The four-year contract he signed with the Seahawks in May 2014 was worth $56 million and the contract was later extended with $40 million of the deal guaranteed.
Richard earned a $1.4 million salary from the deal with an average of $11.5 million per year from 2014 through 2018.
In 2018, he signed another three-year contract worth about $27 million with the San Francisco 49ers, aside from the contract Sherman has some lucrative endorsement deals where he also earns from.
Sherman partners with companies like Nike, T-Mobile, Oberto, BODY ARMOR, and also Beats by Dre.
He has a charity organization called Blanket Coverage- The Richard Sherman Family Foundation.
However, his mission for the charity was to help the children in low-income communities by making provision for school and clothing and the charity was to help children across the country to help them achieve academic excellence.
Richard Sherman’s net worth shows that he’s also invested in cryptocurrency, tech stocks and acts as an ambassador for the trivia app FleetWit.
He is also the co-owner of the Glacier Boyz for the Fan Controlled Football League in which luckily their first game was on February 13, 2021.
The 37-year-old also invested his money in buying properties, he bought homes in Yorba Linda, California, and also at Maple Valley, Washington.
