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Trent Sherfield Buffalo Bills · #81

Wide Receiver · 6' 1", 205 lbs · Danville, IL · Age 30

Trent Sherfield is a Wide Receiver for the Buffalo Bills, an undrafted signing. In 2025 he caught 3 passes for 21 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Wide ReceiverUndrafted8-yr veteran
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Buffalo Bills · #81 · Wide Receiver
Trent Sherfield
Season avg3 rec · 21 yds · 0 td
Career avg89 rec · 1,034 yds · 6 td
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
3rec
21yds
0td
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Scouting report

Trent Sherfield — the report card

Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades are percentiles vs every active player at his position.

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Wide Receiver · Rotation piece · Impact 50
Trent Sherfield is a Wide Receiver for the Buffalo Bills, an undrafted signing. In 2025 he caught 3 passes for 21 yards and 0 touchdowns.
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Receiving
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Big-play
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Scoring
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Receiving yards
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Volume
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Big-play
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Scoring
Solid · offense
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Target share
Average · offense
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Act II

Where Trent Sherfield stands

Live ladders from the Balladex models, and what he's chasing. Rankings recompute nightly from real production, accolades, and search demand.

The laddersmodel · recomputes nightly
1
Jared Goff Detroit Lions▬
29%
2
Bryce Young Carolina Panthers▬
23%
3
Brock Purdy San Francisco 49ers▬
22%
4
Tyler Shough New Orleans Saints▬
11%
5
Kirk Cousins Las Vegas Raiders▬
9%
✦ Balladex Consensus: #1345 of 1982 — a blend of the Impact index, current production, career résumé and live search demand. Recomputes as the data does.
Futures & chases
—MVP odds
50Impact index
117Star score
Career scoring average0.0 ppg
Seasons in the index0
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Trent Sherfield — every number, three levels deep

Headline → metric → the raw history behind it. Real career data; tracking-only metrics labeled.

C+
Receiving
21 YDS
drill in ↓
B+
Volume
3 REC
drill in ↓
C-
Big-play
7.0 Y/R
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C-
Scoring
0 TD
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The engine

How the model sees Trent Sherfield

Projection = recency-weighted per-season production, nudged along a position aging curve, banded by his year-to-year volatility. No black box — every number shows its work.

Projected 2026  modeled
5
rec
2–9
48
rec yds
22–74
0
td
0–1
8
targets
1–15
14
games
11–16
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 8-season history below.
What moves the rec line vs last season
Last season 3 → projected 5 rec
Baseline (recency-weighted)
+3.0
Age curve
-0.5
Net vs last season+2.5 rec
Everything it reads
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8 seasons of real box production
every game line, verified
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Recency × games weight
recent, healthy years anchor the baseline
auto
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Year-over-year trend
his own trajectory, season to season
+dev
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Position aging curve
age 30 — applied to the projection
curve
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Role & usage context
target / carry share and snaps fold in
+ctx
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Availability signal
games last 3: 17 / 17 / 10
health
The real history it trains onsource: Pro-Football-Reference / ESPN · verified

Trent Sherfield career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGRecYdsTDTgtY/R
2018131921012811.1
20191648001320.0
2020155500710.0
2021179871209.7
2022173041725113.9
20231711861227.8
2024178831910.4
202510321047.0
Career122891,0346154
Source: Pro-Football-Reference. Backtested against completed player-seasons in the index. The same engine powers the report-card percentiles and the DNA radar — one model, asked different questions. Illustrative.
Act III

The Lab

Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.

Gold = award / milestone season · hover any bar. Real season totals.
Context

Are the Buffalo Bills built to win?

Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.

12–5proj record
86off index
99def index
+51net
95%playoff odds
60roster
Roster delta · what changed
Offense grades A- (86), defense A+ (99) by our position-percentile roster model. QB play indexes at 78, pass rush 99, coverage 99.
How his role moves
Projected 12–5 on a 17-game slate — modeled from the current roster's production percentiles, not a calibrated Vegas line. His snaps, target/carry share and usage move with roster health.
Balladex Impact
50 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
0 accolades
Career honors on file.
Act IV

The Ballad of Trent Sherfield

Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.

1996-02-25

The beginning

Trent Sherfield is a Wide Receiver for the Buffalo Bills, in his 9th NFL season.

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Trent Sherfield is a Buffalo Bills wide receiver, an undrafted find.

Chapter

Across 8 seasons (2018–2025) he has caught 89 passes for 1,034 yards and 6 touchdowns.

Chapter

Most recently he caught 3 passes for 21 yards and 0 touchdowns in 2025.

Where things stand

Where Sherfield goes from here.

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Sherfield's story
The documentary, narrated
Highlights
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Off the field

Measurables
Active
Height
6' 1"
Weight
205 lbs
Born
Danville, IL
Age
30
Jersey
#81
Background

Trent Sherfield is from Danville, IL and is 30 years old. He entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent and plays wide receiver at 6' 1", 205 lbs.

Over 8 seasons (2018–2025) he has caught 89 passes for 1,034 yards and 6 touchdowns. Sherfield is currently on the Buffalo Bills roster.

The person

Trent Sherfield is a rotational receiver who has caught 89 passes for 1,034 yards and 6 touchdowns across 8 seasons (2018–2025).

Receiving89 career catches, 1,034 yards, 6 touchdowns.
Best season30 catches for 417 yards in 2022.
Yards per catch11.6 yards per reception over his career.
UndraftedEarned a roster spot after going undrafted.
Durability122 career games played.
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FAQ

Trent Sherfield — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Trent Sherfield, answered.

What position does Trent Sherfield play?
Trent Sherfield is a Wide Receiver for the Buffalo Bills.
When was Trent Sherfield drafted?
Trent Sherfield entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent.
How many seasons has Trent Sherfield played?
8 (2018–2025).
What are Trent Sherfield's career stats?
He has caught 89 passes for 1,034 yards and 6 touchdowns.
Trent Sherfield career stats & accolades are real, and team projections and recent-game home/away splits are computed from real production. DNA ratings, grades, tonight's projection, ladders, live win probability and simulator outputs are Balladex model output. Not affiliated with the NBA.
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Current role & opportunity

Usage last season · depth chart current · nflverse
Depth chart
WR6
behind the starter

This role & opportunity data feeds the model's competition-aware projection — snap and target share from last season, depth-chart rank from the current roster.

Weekly matchups

Fantasy points allowed by position · 2026 schedule · Balladex
Next matchup
@ HOU
Week 1 · Smash
Season outlook
42
avg matchup score (0–100)
Smash / Tough
2 / 8
weeks favorable / tough
Playoff weeks
13
Wk 15–17 outlook
W1 @ HOUW2 vs DETW3 vs LACW4 vs NEW5 @ LAW6 @ LVW7 · BYEW8 vs BALW9 @ MINW10 @ NYJW11 vs MIAW12 vs KCW13 @ NEW14 @ GBW15 vs CHIW16 @ DENW17 @ MIAW18 vs NYJ

Each week grades Trent Sherfield's opponent by the fantasy points that defense allowed to his position (2025), tiered Smash → Avoid. A transparent Balladex model estimate; see the full weekly matchups grid.

Injury history

Weekly injury reports · nflverse
Injury episodes
6
since 2018
Games missed
0
listed Out
Lower-body
5
ankle / knee / soft-tissue
Concussions
0
head, reported
Most recent reports
2025 Wk11 · Toe2023 Wk12 · Ankle2023 Wk11 · Ankle (Questionable)2022 Wk10 · Toe (Questionable)2019 Wk9 · Knee2018 Wk16 · Ankle

Home surface: a_turf (artificial turf). Artificial turf is associated with higher rates of non-contact lower-body injuries — ankle, foot and knee — in NFL studies. It is not linked to concussion risk, which is contact-driven.

Real weekly injury-report history (game-status designations, most recent 5 seasons). Rest days and load-management designations are excluded.

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Trent Sherfield head-to-head

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