Sterling Shepard honoring his late father by wearing No. 3

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Giants receiver Sterling Shepard is changing jersey numbers. He is going from No. 87, which he has worn five seasons in the NFL, to No. 3.

The No. 3 means a lot to Shepard: It’s the number he and his late father, Derrick Shepard, wore at the University of Oklahoma.

“It’s something that means a lot to me,” Shepard said, via the team website. “It’s been a number that I’ve been since I was a little kid, after my father passed. He wore No. 3 in college. That’s something that meant a lot to me, a lot to his teammates. I wanted to carry that on. When I came into the league, you couldn’t get single digits. Whenever the rule changed, I was happy to grab that.”

Derrick Shepard, also a wide receiver, lettered at Oklahoma from 1983-86. He played 36 NFL games with Washington, Dallas and New Orleans.
 
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