jerrym
01-19-2019, 02:30 AM
J C Sherritt, who won the Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award in 2012 and helped the Eskimos win the Grey Cup in 2015, has announced that he is retiring. It's sad to see the league lose one of its best players but it happens to all of them sooner or later.
The 30-year-old native of Truckee, CA. announced his retirement on Wednesday, after eight seasons.
And he went out in exactly the same way he came in all those years ago, by helping his team to victory by posting a game-high nine tackles. That’s one less than the 10 he exploded on the scene with in his debut in the 2011 season-opener, coming out of nowhere as a five-foot-nine, 218-pound Eastern Washington product, who would go on to put his school on the CFL map along with the likes of Bo Levi Mitchell and Matt Nichols. And that ninth and very last tackle of his illustrious career, gave him an even 100 on the year to earn triple digits for just the second time. The first was the 130 tackles he set the then-league record with in his sophomore season on the way to being named the 2012 CFL most outstanding defensive player.
He ended up with 507 tackles in 109 games over those eight years – seven if you don’t count a 2017 campaign that ended as soon as it began due to an Achilles injury in the season opener – one that led to speculation this day might have come much sooner than it actually did.
“I know playing, and I was told this by a coach, but: Enjoy every one you get because they don’t come around as often as you think and they’re over before you know it,” Sherritt said after that game, whether the foreshadowing was intentional or not. “I just really enjoyed today and it meant a lot to get that win.” The consummate leader, Sherritt was always the first to deflect any and all praise to his teammates, while shouldering as much of the blame directed their way as he could.
“Don’t ask him about anything involving him that’s positive,” was how Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly put it on that very same day. “But I’ll talk about it. “No doubt, the guy’s amazing.”
The irony – or is it tragedy? Here is that on the same off-season where Reilly, the franchise quarterback who has been the face of the Eskimos, is expected to test free agency, the club is also now bidding farewell to the player who has quarterbacked its defence as well as anyone.
https://edmontonsun.com/sports/football/cfl/edmonton-eskimos/cfl-edmonton-eskimos-linebacker-jc-sherritt-retires
The 30-year-old native of Truckee, CA. announced his retirement on Wednesday, after eight seasons.
And he went out in exactly the same way he came in all those years ago, by helping his team to victory by posting a game-high nine tackles. That’s one less than the 10 he exploded on the scene with in his debut in the 2011 season-opener, coming out of nowhere as a five-foot-nine, 218-pound Eastern Washington product, who would go on to put his school on the CFL map along with the likes of Bo Levi Mitchell and Matt Nichols. And that ninth and very last tackle of his illustrious career, gave him an even 100 on the year to earn triple digits for just the second time. The first was the 130 tackles he set the then-league record with in his sophomore season on the way to being named the 2012 CFL most outstanding defensive player.
He ended up with 507 tackles in 109 games over those eight years – seven if you don’t count a 2017 campaign that ended as soon as it began due to an Achilles injury in the season opener – one that led to speculation this day might have come much sooner than it actually did.
“I know playing, and I was told this by a coach, but: Enjoy every one you get because they don’t come around as often as you think and they’re over before you know it,” Sherritt said after that game, whether the foreshadowing was intentional or not. “I just really enjoyed today and it meant a lot to get that win.” The consummate leader, Sherritt was always the first to deflect any and all praise to his teammates, while shouldering as much of the blame directed their way as he could.
“Don’t ask him about anything involving him that’s positive,” was how Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly put it on that very same day. “But I’ll talk about it. “No doubt, the guy’s amazing.”
The irony – or is it tragedy? Here is that on the same off-season where Reilly, the franchise quarterback who has been the face of the Eskimos, is expected to test free agency, the club is also now bidding farewell to the player who has quarterbacked its defence as well as anyone.
https://edmontonsun.com/sports/football/cfl/edmonton-eskimos/cfl-edmonton-eskimos-linebacker-jc-sherritt-retires