Richard Sherman follows up on promise to grant college scholarship

Richard Sherman may not get along with everyone in the Seattle Seahawks locker room, but he's got at least one lifelong fan in Virginia after a generous recent donation.

While attending former teammate Michael Robinson's charity dinner and football camp last year, Sherman encountered a student named Hershai James and challenged her to raise her grades as she entered her senior year of high school. If James could improve her grades enough, Sherman would reward her with a college scholarship.

A year later, James held up her end of the bargain and so did Sherman.

"When my senior year began, I definitely had the scholarship in my head as motivation," James, a student at Varina High in Virginia, told Wes McElroy of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "Having something to look forward to helped. It’s like saying my hard work and dedication had paid off."

Sherman is a yearly attendee of Robinson's event benefiting the Excel to Excellence Foundation. He feels he was only doing his part to follow in Robinson's footsteps by offering James an education.

"It goes back to knowledge is power and if you have knowledge you’re going to be as powerful as you ever want to be," Sherman said. "Nobody stops anybody from reading and educating themselves.

"Mike (Robinson) is only trying to empower these kids to be everything that they can be and if we can help with that with our presence, with our jerseys (to be auctioned off), with our words, we’ll do everything we can."

James will attend Norfolk State University in Virginia next fall to study business.

- With h/t to ProFootballTalk