SAN FRANCISCO, California — Mutually, like a divorce the whole neighborhood saw coming, Trent Sherfield said he and the Broncos simply grew apart. There are many reasons the veteran receiver’s two-year deal in Denver this past offseason didn’t work out. One: Sherfield never actually talked to special-teams coordinator Darren Rizzi before he signed, and didn’t feel the Broncos’ special-teams scheme “fit” him, he told The Denver Post Monday. Two: Sherfield played more than 30% of Denver’s offensive snaps in their first three games, and they went 1-2 in that stretch. The most important reason, however, is that rookie Pat Bryant simply took his job. “That’s when Pat started playing, and then we started winning,” Sherfield said, recalling the early part of the Broncos’ 2025 season. “So as a coach, you’re like – ‘I gotta roll with, we’re winning.’ So I think that kinda played a part in it.” Two months after the Broncos surprisingly cut bait with Sherfield midseason, though, the veteran receiver wishes no ill will. It’s hard to, in the position he’s in. New England snapped up Sherfield in January, and he’s now on the Patriots’ practice squad for this Super Bowl run. And Sherfield still considers himself a mentor to the 23-year-old Bryant, with whom he has stayed in touch since leaving Denver. A day after the Broncos cut Sherfield, Bryant broke out against the Chiefs, with five catches for 82 yards. The weeks that followed brought chaos. Bryant was strapped to a gurney and carted off…
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