DeShawn Anthony Shead is an NFL player who plays cornerback for the Detroit Lions and he is known professionally as DeShawn Shead. Before signing with the Lions in 2018, Shead spent six years with the Seattle Seahawks as a free agent and was part of the ‘Legion of Boom’ that won Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014.
A brief biography
Shead was born in Palmdale, California (the same town where he was raised) on June 28, 1989. He has four siblings – Chinelle, DeVaughn, Donte and Kierra. Her mother’s name is Sherri Tatum while her father’s name is not known.
It was while attending Highland High School, Palmdale, California, this Shead discovered his love for football and athletics. DeShawn joined the school football team and also participated in track and field when he realized he could have a career in football or on the track.
In high school, he held the school pole vault record and was also a two-time recipient of the All-Conference and All-CIF Southern Defensive Return and also the 2006 recipient of the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award.
After high school, DeShawn Shead played college football for Portland State University, Oregon. He was redshirted for one season and for the remainder of his remaining years/seasons at Portland State, he won PSU Most Outstanding Defensive Back. As a junior, he was the All-Big Sky Conference No. 2 team and also competed in the decathlon with the Vikings track team.
NFL Career
Following his college career, DeShawn Shead signed with the Seattle Seahawks in April 2012 as an unmodified free agent and as of August 31, he was released and signed to the practice squad. After a year, DeShawn was moved from the practice squad to the active squad and played with the team in Super Bowl XLVIII 2014 in February 2014, which ended in a 43–8 victory over the Broncos. Denver.
After Seattle’s loss in February 2015 SuperBowl XLIX, Byron Maxwell (corner) left for Philadelphia leaving the starting position open against Richard Sherman. The team would later sign Cary Williams in the offseason, but he would sit on the bench for 12 weeks and then be released. Teadold Simon and Jeremy Lane, both cornerbacks, still recovering from injury, Shead had the opportunity to show his skills in a game against Pittsburgh.
After the match, Shead was signed full-time to the team. His first game after landing a full-time job was against the Arizona Cardinals, where he recorded an interception, a tackle, and a pass deflection. In the 2016 playoffs, DeShawn suffered a torn ACL in a game against the Atlanta Falcons. 36–20 loss.
The following year, he renewed his contract with the team, but was placed on the list of physically unable to perform due to his torn ACL, he remained on the list until December 23, 2017. In March 2018 , Shead was released by the Seahawks and he signed a one-year contract with the Detroit Lions. $3.5 million. The contract included an additional $3 million in incentives.
Wife of Shawn Shead (Jessica Martinez)
Shead is happily married to the love of his life, Jessica Martinez. They started in 2012, and after the 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII win over the Denver Broncos, DeShawn Shead took a knee in front of a large contingent of media and popped the question every woman loves to hear and you can be sure the answer is a yes..
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The couple married in July 2016 and are the parents of two adorable children – a daughter named Savannah who was born in April 2015 and a son named Carson who was born in February 2017. Shead is a music lover and he actually plays the piano.
He actually started playing the musical instrument as a child. Shead remembers his mother getting him and his brothers a keyboard for Christmas, which he played here and there until he was suspended for a week. And what did his mother do? Instead of forbidding him to play the instrument, DeShawn said his mother took the TV and radio away and left him with books and the piano.
Jessy’s parents also own a piano that Shead played whenever they went to visit and she gave him a piano for Christmas 2014.
His height, weight and body stats
The NFL cornerback stands at a height of 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) and weighs 96 kg (212 lb). His body stats are not known.