Trent Sherfield was born an athlete. He always excelled in a competitive environment, from playing football with his uncles in the backyard in his hometown of Danville, Illinois, as a little tike to eventually suiting up in pads in the NFL.
So much so he pursued track and field, baseball, and basketball, too, as a high schooler—a true multi-sport athlete. But there was always something different about what he did on the gridiron. Of course, he liked all the other sports, but man, did he love football, his mom Tedrone Gouard said.
“I heard him calling out the snap count in his sleep,” Gouard recalled about Sherfield’s high school days.