Cordarrelle Patterson Video

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CP definitely should be on a list of top 100 most explosive college players of all time.

Other UT players that I think should be considered are Jalin Hyatt, Jujuan Jennings, Jay Graham, Cobb, Webb, Little man Stewart, Peerless Price, Dobbs, and many others.

We've had a ton of guys come through the program where all you had to do was get the ball in their hands and watch the magic.
 
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He doesn’t have Peyton Manning or Eric Berry on there

No Carl Pickens, Jamal Lewis, Peerless Price.
 
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SpookyAction said:
Those years from Cordarrelle Patterson to Heupel's hire seemed like FOREVER in football terms.
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But we’re still here. Those multiple of thousands that kept attending, watching, listening and hoping have finally been rewarded with a return to relevance. We, as fans, survived some really ugly years, but the clouds are parting.

Go Vols!
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
He showed out against Georgia and Missouri too. He had over 1700 all purpose yards and 10 TDs in his one year here. Wasn’t his fault the team sucked, and he showed enough for the Vikings to pick him in the 1st round.
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first off 2012 Missou (their first year in the SEC) they were 5-7 good try though. We lost that game 48-51 in 4OT's he had 53 receiving yards on 3 catches rushed for a TD (5-28) had 3 decent kick returns for 80 yards total and 1 PR for 0. If that's showing out (in a freakin loss ) we need to rewrite the definition of the term. Agaisnt UGA his stats were worse (in a 44-51 loss) 2receptions for 31 yards 0 td's 3-55 rushing 1 td 2-42 on kick returns no PR's. That's really stretching the definition of showing out more than the Missou game.

CP had 3 statistically 'show out games' NC State, Mississipi State (questionable given outcome) and Troy.

In 2012 a 4 win Missouri Team at the end of their Welcome to the SEC tour gets a shot in the arm with a win of UT turning an intro to the basement into them getting confidence and reeling off 12 and 11 win seasons and becoming mid pack instead of learning their place in the basement. They won 2 SEC games that year.. Kentucky and UT. No one showed out that game. He accounted for 81 yards of offense in 4 OT's 80 yard on KR's if you cant get 80 when team has done 51 points worth of kickoffs you need help.

UGA not counting the 6:08 it took them to put the first score on the board, lead all but 42 seconds of this game (courtesy of Bray and White Lightning. Again no one showed out that game...86 yards of offense 1 score 42 yards on returns.


CP was an electric player in his short time here.. people forget the short part. He had 10 plays he scored on. Only 4 of them happened in wins (3 games) NC State, Troy and Kentucky. NC State did make a bowl.. which they lost to Vandy.

So sticking to straight facts in games that mattered.. what did he do? Florida he caught an early 2 yard td.. nothing else of note we lost by 17. UGA he showed out scored one td on a 46 yard run which accounted for more than half his total offensive yards (86) and didn't matter at all. Bama 19 net yards....oh he had 111 return yards.. because they scored 44 frekaing points he had enough opportunities. FLorida * catches 75 yards an a TD...another 2 yarder early in the game that didn't matter because we LOST and he didn't do anything else that mattered all game.

So if shocking a dead frog is your definition of electric then yup he wins.

Ya'll making me seem like a hater CP was a good vol and a good player but he was very limited and his impact was non existent. Both at UT and in the pros. Looking good in losses mean you still took an L. What did he ever contributed to winning? Agaisnt a team we weren't gonna beat anyway.
 
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pimo1 said:
first off 2012 Missou (their first year in the SEC) they were 5-7 good try though. We lost that game 48-51 in 4OT's he had 53 receiving yards on 3 catches rushed for a TD (5-28) had 3 decent kick returns for 80 yards total and 1 PR for 0. If that's showing out (in a freakin loss ) we need to rewrite the definition of the term. Agaisnt UGA his stats were worse (in a 44-51 loss) 2receptions for 31 yards 0 td's 3-55 rushing 1 td 2-42 on kick returns no PR's. That's really stretching the definition of showing out more than the Missou game.

CP had 3 statistically 'show out games' NC State, Mississipi State (questionable given outcome) and Troy.

In 2012 a 4 win Missouri Team at the end of their Welcome to the SEC tour gets a shot in the arm with a win of UT turning an intro to the basement into them getting confidence and reeling off 12 and 11 win seasons and becoming mid pack instead of learning their place in the basement. They won 2 SEC games that year.. Kentucky and UT. No one showed out that game. He accounted for 81 yards of offense in 4 OT's 80 yard on KR's if you cant get 80 when team has done 51 points worth of kickoffs you need help.

UGA not counting the 6:08 it took them to put the first score on the board, lead all but 42 seconds of this game (courtesy of Bray and White Lightning. Again no one showed out that game...86 yards of offense 1 score 42 yards on returns.


CP was an electric player in his short time here.. people forget the short part. He had 10 plays he scored on. Only 4 of them happened in wins (3 games) NC State, Troy and Kentucky. NC State did make a bowl.. which they lost to Vandy.

So sticking to straight facts in games that mattered.. what did he do? Florida he caught an early 2 yard td.. nothing else of note we lost by 17. UGA he showed out scored one td on a 46 yard run which accounted for more than half his total offensive yards (86) and didn't matter at all. Bama 19 net yards....oh he had 111 return yards.. because they scored 44 frekaing points he had enough opportunities. FLorida * catches 75 yards an a TD...another 2 yarder early in the game that didn't matter because we LOST and he didn't do anything else that mattered all game.

So if shocking a dead frog is your definition of electric then yup he wins.

Ya'll making me seem like a hater CP was a good vol and a good player but he was very limited and his impact was non existent. Both at UT and in the pros. Looking good in losses mean you still took an L. What did he ever contributed to winning? Agaisnt a team we weren't gonna beat anyway.
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He threw a pass in addition to the stats you listed in the Mizzou game and accounted for for over 150 all purpose yards in 4 different ways against Mizzou. That game was 24-24 at the end of regulation, he did not get to run back a bunch of kickoffs like you would think in a 51 point defensive effort. Against Georgia, he took an end around and ran it back to the side of the field he started on for a 46 yard touchdown in a 51-44 shootout of a game where we erased a 17 point deficit to take the lead before running out of steam.

Nobody has said that the guy was robbed of a Heisman and hard carried to the team to glory. Just that he was electric with the ball in his hands. He wasn’t a very good route runner or someone who mastered the playbook, but when he got the ball, the guy was awesome. If you actually watched him at UT, then you’d know that it’s true. There is a reason he was a 1st round pick despite the fact you think the guy was trash, and it’s because he was electric with the ball. Didn’t have any of the other skills needed. Considering he holds the NFL record for kickoff return touchdowns, it shouldn’t be a leap to say the guy was an exciting player in college, even if you wanna dismiss everything that everyone from UT fans to NFL scouts saw with their own eyes. It’s actually kind of astounding that someone would go to such lengths to dispute the fact he was electric.
 
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Smokymtnbullet said:
The most athletic guy to ever wear orange.He made it look like a backyard game.Would love to have seen him play 3 years!
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Agree.

There are a lot of great ball players listed there as well as mentioned in posts but IMO "electric" is a special category and many don't fit that specific description.

I agree with Barry Sanders at number one but CP belongs in the top 10 of that specific group.
 
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When you consider the fact that that offense should have been:

Tyler Bray, Raijon Neal (one of the most underrated backs we have had IMO), Da'Rick Rogers, Justin Hunter, Cordarelle Patterson, Mychal Rivera, Tiny Richardson, James Stone, Jawaun James, Alex Bullard and Zach Fulton....

Like...if we had even a shred of a defense that year, we could have achieved so much.

On paper, im not even sure that the 2023 Vols were as good as that team could have been.
 
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This list is nonsense. Some are rated too low, some shouldn't even be on the list.

Bo Jackson @ #8?
 
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IndianaVol said:
CP definitely should be on a list of top 100 most explosive college players of all time.

Other UT players that I think should be considered are Jalin Hyatt, Jujuan Jennings, Jay Graham, Cobb, Webb, Little man Stewart, Peerless Price, Dobbs, and many others.

We've had a ton of guys come through the program where all you had to do was get the ball in their hands and watch the magic.
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Stanley Morgan & Willie Gault gotta be on that list.
 
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IndianaVol said:
CP definitely should be on a list of top 100 most explosive college players of all time.

Other UT players that I think should be considered are Jalin Hyatt, Jujuan Jennings, Jay Graham, Cobb, Webb, Little man Stewart, Peerless Price, Dobbs, and many others.

We've had a ton of guys come through the program where all you had to do was get the ball in their hands and watch the magic.
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Chuck Webb other than Patterson probably my vote for #2.
 
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wmcovol said:
Stanley Morgan & Willie Gault gotta be on that list.
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Tim McGee from that era as well...don't believe I skipped over Gault.
That dude was nothing but bottled lightning!!!

Read where he set a Masters Track record for the 100 meter at something like 10.9 secs...that's a football field in less than 11 seconds...I bet there's guys playing the position today that would struggle to run that...incredible athlete.
 
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njvols said:
Maybe since Patterson was just one year, but his one year of highlights were off the charts every game.

Also, Travis Hunter should probably be higher.
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Travis Hunter is kind of weird for me...don't get me wrong, dude belongs on this list for sure and yes, probably higher than he is shown.

I wonder what could have been if he had played at another school. Would the coaches have allowed him to play both ways...or was that some of Deion drawing attention and hype to the program?
What kind of numbers could Hunter have put up in a system like Heupel or Lane K?
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
When you consider the fact that that offense should have been:

Tyler Bray, Raijon Neal (one of the most underrated backs we have had IMO), Da'Rick Rogers, Justin Hunter, Cordarelle Patterson, Mychal Rivera, Tiny Richardson, James Stone, Jawaun James, Alex Bullard and Zach Fulton....

Like...if we had even a shred of a defense that year, we could have achieved so much.

On paper, im not even sure that the 2023 Vols were as good as that team could have been.
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Imagine Hooker,Jaylen Wright, and Sampson playing behind that OLine. Dobbs could have been a different QB playing behind that line.

Heupel would have gotten the ball in Willie Gault's hands much more than in the early 80's. A player with Gault's special talents is what the WR screen was made for. I listened to John Ward waiting to hear Gault's name, hoping something big would happen.

It is too bad we haven't had 'that' guy to throw it to for a couple of seasons.
 
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IndianaVol said:
Travis Hunter is kind of weird for me...don't get me wrong, dude belongs on this list for sure and yes, probably higher than he is shown.

I wonder what could have been if he had played at another school. Would the coaches have allowed him to play both ways...or was that some of Deion drawing attention and hype to the program?
What kind of numbers could Hunter have put up in a system like Heupel or Lane K?
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Colorado was definitely a better place for him than Tennessee if numbers and elevating his profile were the main objectives. With Joe and Nico throwing him the ball, his receiving numbers would have been way down, and with Willie Martinez coaching him on defense, he would have been worse defensively as well.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Colorado was definitely a better place for him than Tennessee if numbers and elevating his profile were the main objectives. With Joe and Nico throwing him the ball, his receiving numbers would have been way down, and with Willie Martinez coaching him on defense, he would have been worse defensively as well.
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My question was what kind of stats Hunter would have had in a system LIKE Heupel's...when it is working correctly and not being throttled by the QB making bad decisions or sailing the ball to the stands.
 
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