2023 Football Roster

97 Clay Patterson

  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 290
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Frisco, Texas
  • Highschool Frisco Reedy

Biography

Notes: Tied for second all-time at Yale with 22.5 career sacks.

2023: First team All-Ivy selection... Fourth in the Ivy League with 4.5 sacks...Fifth on the team with 40 tackles (21 solo, 19 assisted)... Season-high nine tackles, including seven solo stops, in the win over Sacred Heart which earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors... Named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society... Recipient of the team's D-Line Award... Co-recipient of Greg Dubinetz Award.

2022: Named second team All-Ivy... Second in the Ivy League with 6.5 sacks... Appeared in all 10 games... Eighth on the team with 25 tackles, including 7.5 for a loss... Had at least half a sack in all but two games... Recovered a fumble in the victory at Columbia... In on six tackles in the win over Bucknell.

2021:  Selected by the Associated Press (AP) as a Third Team All-American...Recognized by HERO Sports on its Sophomore All-America Team...Awarded All-Ivy First Team honors - one of just two second-year players to earn the recognition...Honored by the New England Football Writers Association to its annual All-New England team...Selected to the College Sports Information Directors of America's (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Team...Named to the watch list for the 2021 Buck Buchanan Award, presented annually to the national defensive player of the year...Led the Bulldogs and the conference in sacks (11.5) and ranked second nationally with 1.15 sacks per game...Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week award on Oct.4 and also recognized by STATS Perform on its weekly FCS National Defensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention list after recording four sacks in a 34-0 win at Leigh.

2020: No season due to COVID-19.

2019: Served role as reserve defensive lineman and special teamer … played in two games ... anticipated to enter the defensive line rotation next season.

At Frisco Reedy High School (2018-19): One-year varsity starter… Unanimous first-team All-Region Defensive End… First All-State Academic Team…Team captain… 13 Sacks… 76 Tackles… 22 TFL’s…  Powerlifting State Qualifier (1,535 Total)
 
At East Coweta High School (2017-18): One-year varsity starter…First-Team All-Region Defensive End…First-Team Coweta Score… All-State Academic Team… 8 Sacks… 76 Tackles… 14 TFL’s

Personal: Son of Mike and Sara Liz Patterson…Brother of Graham, Cy, and Ben Patterson

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Historical Player Information

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    2019First Year

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    6'4" 290 lbs
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    2021Sophomore

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    6'3" 267 lbs
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    2022Sophomore

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    6'3" 267 lbs
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    2022-23Junior

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    6'3" 267 lbs
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    2023Senior

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    6'3" 290 lbs
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