Richard Sherman responds to George Pickens after the Cowboys receiver's Instagram post

Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Dec 5, 2025

Published in Football

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Super Bowl champion and NFL All-Pro Richard Sherman laid into Dallas Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens after the team’s 44-30 loss to the Detroit Lions on Thursday Night Football.

Sherman said the Georgia product looked uninterested and was not giving the requisite effort demanded of a star player.

“The big story here is George Pickens. George Pickens throughout the game and especially late in the game just looked uninterested … in playing football,” Sherman said. “It doesn't matter if the game is going your way or not going your way, you can't just disappear in these games or else you're not going to have impact … if you're the Dallas Cowboys, and you're looking at him, and you're looking to pay him big-time receiver money, $40 million, you gotta look at this tape and say hey, is this a guy we can trust to pay $40 million to show up regardless of circumstance? I don’t know.”

Pickens responded on Instagram in a post insulting Sherman, saying the cornerback was nothing without the Legion of Boom, the nickname given to the vaunted Seahawks secondary and with whom Sherman won a Super Bowl during the 2013 NFL season.

“This is a team game lmao, I’m not the only one on the team. Stop becoming an analyst and talking about one player when he playin a team game. Lost of shh has to go right for explosive plays … and it’s funny because I thought former players would know that such as [expletive] [expletive] Sherman who btw ain't [expletive] without the Legion of Boom. We all remember San Francisco, brother.”

Sherman responded on X, formerly Twitter, after a fan responded to him saying someone should let Pickens know that Sherman was an All-Pro with the 49ers during the 2019 season.

“Lol kid hasn’t done enough to merit a response from me. I was working on my 3rd consecutive 1st team All pro and 2nd SB appearance at the same point in my career. Lol I made an ALL-Pro team and SB in SF but that’s the fall off for me,” Sherman said.

Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said he had seen the post and had not yet had the chance to, but would address it with Pickens later when asked about it.

Pickens’ next chance to prove Sherman wrong will have to wait until the Cowboys play the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday Night Football during Week 15.