Return specialist and former Gopher Marcus Sherels to re-sign with Vikings

per the Pioneer Press:

Fresh off again becoming a double-duty returner, Marcus Sherels is returning to the Vikings.

A source said the cornerback reached terms Wednesday on a one-year contract to be back with Minnesota for a ninth season. Monetary terms were not immediately available on Sherels, who had a salary-cap number last season of $2 million.

Sherels, who played at the University of Minnesota, has been a top special-teams performer for the Vikings. In 2017, he averaged 9.5 yards on an NFL-most 39 punt returns and 24.6 yards on 11 kickoff returns.

Sherels, who joined the Vikings in 2010, handled both punt and kickoff returns in 2011 and 2012 before being almost exclusively a punt returner from 2013-16. But midway through last season, with Cordarrelle Patterson already having left as a free agent and the Vikings deciding not to put too much of a burden on running back Jerick McKinnon, Sherels went back also handling kickoffs.

https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/28/cb-marcus-sherels-to-re-sign-with-vikings-on-one-year-deal/

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BleedGopher said:

per the Pioneer Press:

Fresh off again becoming a double-duty returner, Marcus Sherels is returning to the Vikings.

A source said the cornerback reached terms Wednesday on a one-year contract to be back with Minnesota for a ninth season. Monetary terms were not immediately available on Sherels, who had a salary-cap number last season of $2 million.

Sherels, who played at the University of Minnesota, has been a top special-teams performer for the Vikings. In 2017, he averaged 9.5 yards on an NFL-most 39 punt returns and 24.6 yards on 11 kickoff returns.

Sherels, who joined the Vikings in 2010, handled both punt and kickoff returns in 2011 and 2012 before being almost exclusively a punt returner from 2013-16. But midway through last season, with Cordarrelle Patterson already having left as a free agent and the Vikings deciding not to put too much of a burden on running back Jerick McKinnon, Sherels went back also handling kickoffs.

https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/28/cb-marcus-sherels-to-re-sign-with-vikings-on-one-year-deal/

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Great News!! Dependable and incredibly elusive on punts. Excellent!!!

Worth every $$ they pay him. Always around the return guy on special teams coverage too.

Best news I've heard all day

Great news, he's been unbelievably important to our specials teams! Both on returns and coverage!

Awesome that he is able to keep on playing for the Vikings. He has really strung together a nice career for a guy that nobody expected to make it in the NFL.

Sid: Return of Marcus Sherels is another good move for the Vikings

One of the best stories in Minnesota football history got another season this week when the Vikings signed Marcus Sherels to a one-year deal.

Sherels will enter his ninth season with the Vikings, tying him as the second-longest-tenured player on the roster with defensive lineman Everson Griffen and behind defensive lineman Brian Robison, who will enter his 12th season with the Vikings.

What makes Sherels’ story so fantastic is that the former University of Minnesota walk-on and Rochester John Marshall graduate never seemed like a potential NFL player.

Nobody really wanted Sherels in college, or in the NFL, where he went undrafted in 2009 and then came to the Vikings’ rookie minicamp. He made the team but didn’t stick for long and was released, then he was brought back onto the practice squad and finally got called up for the final game of the 2010 regular season.

“I always try to stay positive and I stayed in shape and ready to go and they brought me back and I was happy,” Sherels said. “At the rookie minicamp I wasn’t even on the punt return list and I had to ask the coach and tell them, the special teams coordinator at the time, that I could return punts. He said, ‘Let’s see what you got.’ ”

To this day a lot of people in the Sherels family get nervous when Marcus gets ready to return a punt or a kick. His sister Kanysha Sherels told City Pages in 2015 that whenever a punt goes to Marcus that, “I close my eyes and I get really nervous.”

http://www.startribune.com/return-of-marcus-sherels-is-another-good-move-for-the-vikings/478464963/

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