Longtime cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks Richard Sherman is expected to be released by the team today (Mar. 9.)
It appears that the Legion Of Boom era is coming to an end in Seattle. Seattle will likely say goodbye to their star cornerback Richard Sherman today (Mar. 9.) The Seahawks have already traded core L.O.B member Michael Bennett this past Wednesday to the Philadelphia Eagles (Mar7.) Paired with age (Sherman will turn 30 this month) and an Achilles injury, those two factors may have played a part in his possible release. This shouldn’t serve as a surprise to Sherman, as the team has publically acknowledged they were open to trading him.
"He is coming off a ruptured right Achilles that ended his 2017 season in November and recently had a cleanup procedure on the same part of his other foot. Sherman said last month that he expected to resume running around mid-April or early May. He also told reporters that he has been serving as his own agent for at least the past year.Sherman, who will turn 30 at the end of March, is entering the final year of a four-year, $56 million extension that he signed in 2014 after the Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII. He is scheduled to count $13.2 million against the 2018 salary cap."
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