Cordarrelle Patterson

CAREER

• Has appeared in 170 games (60 starts) and has returned 273 kicks for 7,989 yards (29.3 avg.) and an NFL-record nine touchdowns on special teams, and has tallied 298 receptions for 2,795 yards (9.4 avg.) and 16 touchdowns in addition to 514 carries for 2,511 yards (4.9 avg.) and 22 rushing touchdowns on offense.

CAREER

• Has appeared in 170 games (60 starts) and has returned 273 kicks for 7,989 yards (29.3 avg.) and an NFL-record nine touchdowns on special teams, and has tallied 298 receptions for 2,795 yards (9.4 avg.) and 16 touchdowns in addition to 514 carries for 2,511 yards (4.9 avg.) and 22 rushing touchdowns on offense.
• In 2023, appeared in 14 games and returned seven kicks for 153 yards (21.9 avg.) and caught nine passes for 38 yards (4.2 avg.) and one touchdown in addition to 50 carries for 181 rushing yards (3.6 avg.) on offense.
• Set single-season career highs in rushing yards (695) and rushing touchdowns (eight) in 13 games (11 starts) in 2022.
• Returned his ninth kickoff return for a touchdown, setting a new NFL record in Week 11 vs. Chicago, earning NFC Special Teams Player of the Week in 2022.
• Rushed for a career-high 141 yards on 17 carries (8.3 avg.) in Week 3 vs. Seattle of the 2022 season.
• Played in 16 games (13 starts) compiling a career-high 1,166 scrimmage yards (548 receiving, 618 rushing), five receiving touchdowns and six rushing touchdowns. He also had 18 kickoff returns for 434 yards (24.1 avg.) in 2021. 
• Became the first player in franchise history to record at least five rushing touchdowns and five recieving touchdowns in a single season in 2021. 
• Totaled 116 scrimmage yards (82 receiving, 34 rushing) while also catching three touchdowns, becoming the first Falcon running back to record three touchdown receptions in franchise history in Week 4 vs. Washington in 2021. 
• With his 14 rushes for 60 yards (4.3 avg.) and a touchdown in Week 7 vs. Dolphins, became the first player with at least 10 rushing touchdowns (10), 10 receiving touchdowns (14) and five kickoffs returned for touchdowns (eight) since the AFL/NFL merger in 1970.
• Set career highs for rushing yards (108) and rushing touchdowns in Week 12 vs. Jaguars, becoming the first Falcon to rush for at least 100 yards and two touchdowns in a game since Devonta Freeman in Week 15 of the 2016 season.
• Leads the NFL in kickoffs returned for touchdowns since entering the NFL in 2013 with eight and is tied with Josh Cribbs (eight) and Leon Washington for the most career kickoff returns for a touchdown in NFL history.
• Ranks second among qualified returners in NFL history with a 29.8 kickoff return average. Only Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers (30.8) has a higher career kickoff return average. 
• Recorded a league-high 1,017 kick return yards on 35 returns (29.1 avg.) as a returner and rushed a career-high 64 times for 232 yards and a touchdown and caught 21 passes for 132 yards for the Bears in 2020.

HONORS

• AP First-Team All-Pro (4x - 2013, 2016, 2019-20)
• AP Second-Team All Pro (2x - 2015, 2018)
• Pro Bowl Selection (4x - 2013, 2016, 2019-20)
• NFC Special Teams Player of the Month (2x - September 2013; November 2019)
• NFC Offensive Player of the Week (Week 3, 2022)
• NFL All-Rookie Team (2013)
• NFC Special Teams Player of the Week (Week 8, 2013, Week 11, 2022)

COLLEGE

• Played one season (2012) at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville after transferring from Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College.
• Earned First-Team All-SEC honors as an all-purpose player after setting a school-record 1,858 all-purpose yards in 12 games (12 starts) for the Volunteers.
• Became the first player to score a touchdown in four different ways in a season since 2008 (receiving, rushing, punt return, kickoff return)

PERSONAL

• Attended Northwestern High School in Rock Hill, S.C., and helped lead his team to the Class 4A Division II state title game as a senior in 2008.
• Majored in communications at Tennessee.