Derrick Sherman enters his third season on the Samford football coaching staff, and his first as offensive coordinator and running backs coach.
Sherman spent his first two seasons on staff working specifically with the team's wide receivers. In 2019, wide receiver A.J. Toney was named to the Southern Conference's All-Freshman team.
Under Sherman's tutelage in 2018, senior wide receiver Kelvin McKnight caught 100 passes for a school-record 1,453 yards and nine touchdowns. McKnight was named first team All-SoCon and All-American.
Sherman came to Samford after spending two seasons as an offensive analyst at Tulane.Â
Prior to Tulane, Sherman made coaching stops at Pittsburg State as the wide receivers coach in 2015 and Georgia Southern University where he served as an offensive graduate assistant coach in 2014. Prior to his time at Georgia Southern, Sherman served as wide receivers coach at Southwest Baptist University in 2012 and West Virginia State University in 2013.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sherman played two seasons at Purdue University (2007-08), before finishing his collegiate career at Morgan State University (2009-11). He served as a team captain at MSU during his senior season. Sherman earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Morgan State in May 2012 and his master's degree in education from Georgia Southern in 2015.
