Former Colorado guard Jaylyn Sherrod has landed with the Atlanta Dream, signing a developmental contract on Monday afternoon, June 29.
In the WNBA, those deals let teams keep up to two extra players beyond the 12-player active roster and salary cap. Developmental players take part in practices and travel with the team, but they can only be activated for a maximum of 12 regular-season games.
Sherrod arrives in Atlanta with a résumé that already stretches from Boulder to a championship run in New York and a stint in Minnesota. She spent five seasons at Colorado from 2019-2024 and finished as the program’s all-time leader in games started with 133. Along the way, she helped push the Buffs to back-to-back NCAA Sweet Sixteen trips in her junior and senior seasons, earned All-Pac-12 recognition in both of those years and picked up WBCA and AP All-America Honorable Mention honors in 2024.
After her college career, Sherrod became the first former Buffalo to win a WNBA title. She helped the New York Liberty win the 2024 championship in her rookie season, first getting in on a training camp contract, then a seven-day deal before earning a permanent roster spot. She returned to New York in 2025 and was later acquired by the Minnesota Lynx, where she continued to provide value as a versatile two-way guard.
Her first two WNBA seasons have been defined less by volume and more by impact in limited minutes. Sherrod has played in 36 regular-season games with the Liberty and Lynx, averaging 1.4 points, 0.5 rebounds, 0.6 assists and 0.5 steals in 5.2 minutes per game. She has 52 points, 18 rebounds, 17 assists and 14 steals, while shooting 35.7% from the field.
The numbers only tell part of the story. Sherrod built her pro reputation as a high-energy, defense-first guard whose on-ball pressure, toughness and versatility helped her stick on championship-caliber rosters.
Her final season in Boulder showed exactly why she became such a valuable player. Sherrod averaged a career-best 12.8 points and matched her career high with 5.1 assists per game.
She also posted career highs in field goals made (4.4), field goal percentage (44.5) and free throw percentage (76.4). She scored in double figures 21 times in 2023-24, including three games of 20 or more points, and recorded at least one steal in 30 games.
Sherrod also finished third in the Pac-12 in total assists with 172 and second in assists per game in her last season. She was an All-Pac-12 and All-Defensive Team selection, ranked fourth in steals with 73 and fourth in steals per game at 2.15, and won Pac-12 Player of the Week along with multiple National Player of the Week honors after a career-high 34 points against then-No.
12 Utah. That season, she scored 436 points, 58 more than her previous best.
The 2024 Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year started all 34 games for Colorado and set the school’s career starts mark at 133. She also had a career-high 13 assists against UT Arlington, logged five or more assists in 16 games and finished with 172 assists on the season, her third year with at least 150. Her 645 career assists rank second in school history behind Kennedy Leonard’s 664.
Sherrod’s biggest performances came when the lights were brightest. Across her career, she averaged 11.9 points and 4.0 assists in 44 games against ranked opponents. In 2023-24, she was even better against top 25 teams, averaging 16.4 points and 4.4 assists in 14 games.
She led Colorado in assists 95 times and in scoring 28 times. Sherrod had double-digit assists five times in her career, including twice this season, and she finished with two double-doubles, both in points and assists.
By the time she left Boulder, Sherrod had joined a small club in program history, becoming the third Buff to top 1,000 points and 600 assists. She finished with 1,483 points and also ranks 19th in field goals made with 486, 14th in points, ninth in steals per game at 2.0, fifth in total steals with 274, fourth in free throws made with 441 and second in games played with 140.
Atlanta’s next game is Thursday, July 2, on the road against the Washington Mystics at 5:30 p.m. MT.
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