On Monday, Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said on 710 ESPN Seattle that cornerback Richard Sherman has been battling a “significant” MCL injury for several weeks.
Richard Sherman’s conflicts on and off the field escalated by ‘significant’ MCL injury
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said it affected Sherman off the field, too.
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Jeanna Kelley has been covering the Falcons for The Falcoholic since 2011 and the NFL for SB Nation since 2015.
The injury was affecting Sherman off the field, also, according to Carroll.
Sherman struggled in coverage against Julio Jones in the Seahawks’ divisional loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Saturday. The Seahawks lost with a final score of 36-20.
In the week leading up to the Divisional Round matchup, Sherman was listed on the Seahawks’ injury report, but he was identified as being held out of practice once for a non-injury related reason.
His status was not listed as in question for Saturday’s game, and looking at Seattle’s injury report history, it looks like a common practice to give Sherman a non-injury related day of rest mid-week. The only time Sherman appeared on Seattle’s injury report with an actual injury this season was Week 12, when he was listed with an ankle injury.
The NFL is investigating the matter.
Sherman also has regrets about the way he conducted himself at times at the end of the season.
”He’s a good man,” Carroll said, according to Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times. “He’s trying to get everything right.”
Carroll also said that the injury “fed into” some of Sherman’s conflicts later in the season.
“But that weighs on you, particularly when you are out there on the edge and you know you are not quite 100 percent and it fed into some of the stuff that he had to deal with,” Carroll said.
Sherman drew a lot of attention late in the season when he told a member of the Seattle media that he would “ruin” his career by ensuring his media credentials were revoked. He was unhappy with the reporter’s questions about an altercation with coaches on his own sideline because he didn’t like the decision to run a passing play from the 1-yard line.
It didn’t take long for Sherman to apologize for his comments via Twitter.
Sherman has also openly questioned officiating this season.
During the regular season, Sherman had 58 tackles, four interceptions, and 13 pass deflections. He was selected to the Pro Bowl for the fourth time following the 2016 season.
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