Well that didn’t take long. Just a day after being released from the Seahawks, Richard Sherman found a new home by signing a three-year deal with the 49ers, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported (Twitter link). 
Sherman’s deal is worth $39 MM over three seasons, including a $5 MM signing bonus, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport tweets.
NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero tweets the deal includes a $2 MM base salary, $2 MM in 46-man roster bonuses, $1 MM playtime incentives and a $3 MM Pro Bowl incentive. He adds that if Sherman makes the Pro Bowl in 2018, another $16 MM in base salary for 2019-20 becomes guaranteed.
The veteran cornerback told ESPN’s Josina Anderson earlier in the day that he was discussing a deal with the Bay Area side (Twitter link). Less than an hour later, the deal was done.
Acting as his own agent, Sherman kicked off his 49ers tour with a dinner with head coach Kyle Shanahan on Friday night, and the sides took more formal steps on Saturday. Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee reports Sherman took a physical with the 49ers today and met with more team officials.
The results of the physical must have been good. The cornerback is currently rehabbing from a torn Achilles in one leg and had surgery to remove a bone spur in the other. Sherman tabbed June as a potential timeframe for when he can return to training.
Sherman reportedly had drawn interest from a number of teams and was even said to be scheduling a visit to meet with the Lions, but the 49ers didn’t let the star cornerback leave the room. He will now get to suit up for the team he tormented for seven seasons with its NFC West division foe. With the move, Sherman will also reunite with 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, who was a defensive assistant in Seattle from 2011-13.
One of the most decorated cornerback of the last decade, Sherman has earned four Pro Bowl selections and won a Super Bowl during his seven-year stay with the Seahawks. Since he entered the league in 2011, Sherman has recorded the most interceptions (32) in the NFL.
Division rival
Wowwowowow
All the crow I’m eating rn is enough to save world hunger. fml
Yes, but you admit it. That’s the tough part.
I’m really happy. As a life long 9ers fan i understand that some fans won’t like this move but I know this is going to be great for us and I know he is going to be out to stick it to Seattle. Can’t freaking wait for FA in a Few days, the draft and the season to start!
Any 49ers fan that doesn’t like this signing isn’t a 49ers fan haha
True lol
Not true…I’d argue you can’t really be a 49ers fan and truly like this move lol…
There are two parts of being a fan. Liking your team, wanting success for them on the field, and enjoying watching your team’s players perform on the field…
Then, there is also the more personal side to fandom. This includes, personally liking and admiring your team’a players, their personalities, and enjoying learning about the team’s players off the field…
Overall, I am just saying, it doesn’t make anyone less of a fan, because they don’t care for a particular player and his personality off the field..
Sherman was a great boundary corner, and he was a top 10 CB, that you could line up on his side of the field, and he’d force his opponent to work for every catch and every yard..They key word though is Sherman WAS great…
No one really knows what Sherman is still capable of, and we won’t know until he puts on his pads and gets ready for the pre-season and mainly until Week 1..
Hopefully he succeeds, regains his form, and he’s able to help my beloved 48ers to a winning season and a playoff birth..Even so, I still don’t like Richard Sherman the person…Hopefully he can still get away with grabbing/holding guys by their skin…Since he even went as far to say as much while he was in Seattle…He was quoted as saying, “If you grab skin, instead of jersey, you won’t get called for PI…Lol…It was always so frustrating watching him hold and grab guys, and how he’d get away with it, time after time…Hopefully he can still get away with it…lol
You’re a idiot if that’s how you feel. I’ve been a fan for 30 years and you’re going to tell me I can’t be a fan if I like this move? Ok lol. Thanks for letting me know I must not be a fan. I wasn’t real clear what made me a fan or not but now I know. I thought being born into being a 49ers fan and sticking by my team when when we completely sucked made me a fan but guess I was wrong lol. Ignorance!
Now the Seahawks’ fans can hate on him like everyone else.
Haha winner so far
Real fans won’t hate him and he is smart enough to understand Seattle was not in a spot to pay him the money. I doubt he has hard feelings towards Seattle. He will be in the ring of honor in Seattle and if he goes into the HOF will be as a Seahawk.
As a Seahawks fan, I think I’m going to puke, and cry.
How much money did he get??!
We didn’t want him either… I just told me Dad and he said, “Why? He sucks now! Didn’t he sit all last year?….” – That’s from the biggest diehard since 1963
He obviously isn’t watching football then, or at least not anything about the Seahawks. He’s not as good as he once was (obvious since he was up there with Revis and Peterson as the top 3 corners in the league) but he’s still good. The injury definitely makes a 3 year pacy questionable, but if he plays like last year, he’s still likely an upgrade over one, if not both, of the 49ers starting corners last year.
Ughhhh. But I hate him soooo much. This pill won’t go up my a.sss with three glops of lube.
We can tell you are from San Francisco
Too clever for silly me…
You know the expression is “a hard pill to swallow”, right?
He just wants to give it to the Seahawks and I don’t blame him
Lol. And to whomever it was that mocked Sherman representing himself… Lololol
All the 49ers fans that hated him how you feel now. Lol He sucks because he can only cover one side of the field. He is a poor sport loud mouth idiot. I hate losing him but I kind of find it funny he went there. RW has gone up against him for so long he will do OK with him. Hope he recovers from the Achilles tear.
3 years? 39mil? 30years old. Coming off Achilles year. Good luck SF. Thank god he didn’t make it to his visit with the lions!
I’m glad too, the Lions have bigger needs. Some decent DT’s out there still. I would have wanted Sherman for veteran minimum.
Yup. Hopefully that Garropollo Guy tuns out to be the Real Deal,of heads cold be rolling in a couple years…
There’s a big F U to Seattle. Now can Oakland cut Crabtree and San Fran bring him back as a FA.
Words can’t describe how bad this deal is. 40M over 3 years for a 30 year old coming off arguably the worst injury an athlete can have. I thought 2 years 20 million with 6M in incentives was fair.
I hope you’re wrong. You’re probably not, but I hope so.
If I ever need an agent for something I’m hiring Richard Sherman
Wow. I’m not 100% sure and can’t be bothered to check but wasn’t he in line for 11M with the Seahawks? Misses time with a serious injury that could cause him to seriously regress and he gets a pay raise?
And people gave him crap for representing himself and not having an agent. Seems like he did pretty well for himself. That’s a Stanford education for you
Pats you had 1 job
LOL!!!!!
Wayyyyyyyyyyy overpay
Revis 2.0 type of signing here….
So much for wanting to sigh with a legitimate contender. Other than the $5 mil bonus, I wonder how much is guaranteed. I think he’ll be done before 2018 is.
Overrated, only played one side of the field in his best days. Should be okay against 2nd receiver though.
That was the Seahawks’ scheme though. The Jaguars under Gus Bradley ran the same scheme and struggled. And Browner/Maxwell were good enough to cover the other side. Peak Richard Sherman was still one of the top 3 corners in the league (along with Revis and Peterson) so I don’t see how he can suck. Teams rarely threw to his side of the field and he still racked up a healthy amount of interceptions. Sure he didn’t follow the opposing team’s best receiver every play, but his performance (along with the rest of the Seahawks defense) really carried the Seahawks before this past season.
I had a feeling the Stanford connection with John Lynch was gonna come into play.
Well, that was fast and obvious
Unless he makes the pro bowl it’s really 1/13 with two team options though. That makes sense. It’s not really 3/40 unless he makes the pro bowl and gets the extra 16 million guaranteed.
Yes! Now I don’t have to cheat to add Sherman to my 49ers (madden) franchise!