Cordarrelle Patterson has played 18 games at Soldier Field. Gale Sayers played 34 games there. Devin Hester played 60.
Cordarrelle Patterson has as many kickoff return touchdowns at Soldier Field (4) as Gale Sayers and Devin Hester combined (2 each).
Cordarrelle Patterson has as many kickoff return touchdowns at Soldier Field (4) as Gale Sayers and Devin Hester combined (2 each).
Cordarrelle Patterson is almost certainly going to finish this year with at least 15 kickoff returns and at least 28 yards per return for the seventh time in his career.
That’d be as many such seasons as any two players in history combined.
That’d be as many such seasons as any two players in history combined.
Yesterday, Patterson joined Josh Cribbs, Bobby Mitchell, and Allen Rossum as the only players in history to return a kickoff for a touchdown in five different seasons.
Today, Cordarrelle Patterson stands alone as the only player to do it in six.
Today, Cordarrelle Patterson stands alone as the only player to do it in six.
He does this in an era where the NFL is trying to end kickoff returns.
Cribbs averaged 53 returns in his five seasons with a score. Rossum averaged 48. Patterson gets just 29.
(Mitchell averaged just 14 returns in his five seasons, but that dude is a whollllllle ‘nother story.)
Cribbs averaged 53 returns in his five seasons with a score. Rossum averaged 48. Patterson gets just 29.
(Mitchell averaged just 14 returns in his five seasons, but that dude is a whollllllle ‘nother story.)
If you’re interested in that whollllllle other story, I touch on it a bit in this thread:
https://twitter.com/adamharstad/status/1176208856063664128?s=21
Bears History Twitter has logged on and is mad.
So to correct the record: yes, Chicago played at Wrigley (not Soldier Field) until 1971.
Yes, in the past I have been more careful to say “the Bears’ home stadium”.
Yes, I shall endeavor to be more careful again in the future.
So to correct the record: yes, Chicago played at Wrigley (not Soldier Field) until 1971.
Yes, in the past I have been more careful to say “the Bears’ home stadium”.
Yes, I shall endeavor to be more careful again in the future.
https://twitter.com/adamharstad/status/1186300058758733826
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