Career:
Closed out his collegiate career first all-time in passing yards (10,128), first in passing attempts (1,251), first in completions (764) and second in career passing touchdowns (80).
2018:
Northeast-10 Most Valuable Player and First Team All-Conference…New England Football Writers Association All-Region and Gold Helmet Award Winner…Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association All-Region Second Team…Don Hansen Football Gazette All-Super Region 1 Second Team All-Region…Started all 12 games, closing out his collegiate career with a career-high 2,878 passing yards and 29 touchdowns…His 2,878 yards is third most in a single season and his 29 touchdowns are tied for the fourth most in a single season in program history…Also added 304 rushing yards and seven touchdowns in the ground game and racked up 269 yards on seven punts, including a long of 52 yards…Finished the season with a 64.3 percent completion average, connecting on 216-of-336 pass attempts and only threw nine interceptions…Opened up the season with back-to-back 300+ yards games with 324 against Bentley (Sep. 1) and 305 in the NE10 opener against Pace (Sep. 8)…Combined for five touchdowns over those two games as well, finishing the season with at least one touchdown in all but two games…Added two more games with 300+ passing yards with 316 at Merrimack (Sep. 22) and set a career-high with 366 yards at LIU Post…As part of the 366 yards against the Pioneers, he set the all-time record for passing yards at New Haven and became the first player to surpass 10,000 passing yards in the NCAA Second Round game against Slippery Rock (Nov. 24) with 271 yards…Threw a season-high four touchdowns in four different games, all in conference play…Threw his longest TD of the season in the first round NCAA Tournament win over West Chester with a 50-yard pass to Ju’an Williams…Set a season-high with 85 rushing yards, including a 33-yard pickup, in the regular season home finale against Saint Anselm (Nov. 3)…Added 50+ yards in one other game, against Bentley (Sep. 29) where he also scored a pair of rushing TD’s…Also picked up a pair of rushing touchdowns in each of the NCAA games against West Chester and Slippery Rock.
2017:
2017-18 New Haven Football Team MVP...Played in all 10 games for the Chargers…Completed 60 percent of his passes for a career-high 2,611 yards and 16 touchdowns…Had seven rushing touchdowns, leading the team…Seven of his 16 touchdown passes came on hauls of 40 or more yards, including a season-long touchdown pass of 67 yards in the season opener against Shaw (Sep. 2)…Finished that game with a season-high 328 yards, one of four games with 300-plus passing yards…Finished all but one of the 10 games with 200 or more passing yards…Threw a touchdown pass in eight games, including a season-high three in back-to-back games against Saint Anselm (Sep. 16) and Pace (Sep. 23)…Opened up the season without an interception through his first 67 pass attempts and closed out the year without a pick in the final 74 pass attempts…Best individual came completion percentage came on the road at Bentley (Nov. 4) on 25-of-34 (73.5%), while not throwing an interception, racking up 319 passing yards…Also finished that game with a season-high 69 rushing yards on 18 attempts and scored a pair of rushing touchdowns…Matched that season-high two rushing touchdowns in the next game, the season finale against Merrimack (Nov. 11)…Closed out the season with five rushing touchdowns in the final three games, while also adding three passing TD’s in that same stretch.
2016:
Started all 11 games, throwing all but one of New Haven’s pass attempts on the year…Logged 2,541 passing yards to go with 22 touchdowns and just seven interceptions…Completed 186 passes on 308 attempts for a 148.72 quarterback rating…Best game came against Saint Anselm on 9/17 where he was 18-24 for 326 yards and three touchdowns while adding a 13-yard run…Recorded three games with three passing touchdowns and eight contests with multiple touchdown passes…Completed seven games without throwing an interception…Logged seven contests with 200+ passing yards…Added two touchdowns on the ground on 46 attempts.
2015:
Northeast-10 Conference All-Rookie team…NE-10 Conference second team…New Haven male Rookie of the Year…Led the team with 2,098 passing yards to go along with 13 touchdowns to just six interceptions…Also added 175 rushing yards and three touchdowns on the ground…Took over behind center after leading the Chargers to a last second comeback win at Bentley (9/11)…First collegiate start came against American International (9/19)…Finished that game with 236 yards on 19 completions in 25 attempts without an interception…Threw for one touchdown, while running for two scores on 11 attempts for 54 yards…Threw for a career-high 307 yards on 29 completions in 54 attempts against Assumption (10/9)…Added one touchdown against the Greyhounds…Completed at least one scoring pass in each of the final six games of the season…Set a career-high with four passing touchdowns in a 63-16 rout of LIU Post (10/24)…Included in those four scores was a season-long pass of 62 yards as part of an 81-yard scoring drive…Finished with 100 or more passing yards in all but two games, while running for double digit yards in six games…Longest run of the season went for 54 yards against rival Southern Connecticut State (9/25)…At one point had a stretch of 121 pass attempts, that spanned over six games, without an interception.
High School:
First Team All-Shore…Offensive Player of the Year…Owns program records with 440 yards passing in a game and 2,661 yards through the air in a season…Accumulated 38 total touchdowns…Also played baseball…A Peer Leadership member.
Personal:
Son of Joseph Patterson and Alyssa Riley…Has two brothers, Jahmir and Jahmel.
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