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Patterson Plays Bigger Than His Numbers

By Ed Thompson
Scout.com
Posted Apr 15, 2007

As NFL teams evaluate college players to determine which ones are the best fit for their 2007 rosters, one person that they've got to be seeing as the type of player who would fit in well on any team is Ohio State defensive lineman David Patterson.


Looking at his collegiate career and the role he played in the Buckeye's success during that span, you quickly learn that Patterson is the ultimate team player--versatile, humble, and more concerned about his team's success than getting a chance to stand in the spotlight.

"The thing I'm most proud of is winning two Big Ten championships," Patterson said during his recent interview. "I'm especially proud of the one this year because it was our first outright Big Ten championship since 1984, so that was very special to me."

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OSU defensive tackle David Patterson might have come out the best of the undrafted bunch as he joined the Atlanta Falcons.

``It was a feeding frenzy,'' said Patterson's agent, Jonathan Feinsod. ``He ended up being the highest-paid (undrafted) free agent this year.''

Feinsod said Patterson fared better by getting to choose from multiple offers rather than being the 240th player taken.

``Neither one is making the headlines as a strong possibility for rookie of the year and each has the same opportunity of making the team,'' Feinsod said. ``We got the best of both worlds.''
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http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/sports/basketball/17160821.htm
 
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Looks like the main reason for the slow news coming on Patterson was because he was choosing the best offer - highest paid undrafted FA? That is some nice ointment to put on the hurt of not being taken on Day 2.
 
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I am glad we gave him the money...He was worth a 5th round draft pick, and I will gladly take him as a udfa...

Especially with our starting dt getting hurt in a boating accident, and the way our d-line seems to get injured every year, he will see some time...
 
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Mini-camp ends without Williams
By Steve Wyche | Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 02:29 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The final day of the Falcons three-day mini-camp Wednesday was by far the most entertaining and spirited.

There were two lively dustups in a team drill featuring offensive tackle Harvey Dahl vs. middle linebacker Tony Taylor and Dahl vs. defensive tackle David Patterson. After the second scrap, which was pretty heated, players really got after each other.
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Mini-camp ends without Williams | Falcons | ajc.com

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Posted: Tuesday, July 29th 2008 Falcons agree to terms with Jackson, release Hutchins
By Staff reports

FLOWERY BRANCH -? The Atlanta Falcons today agreed to terms with defensive tackle Grady Jackson. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Falcons also placed cornerback Von Hutchins on injured reserve, released defensive lineman David Patterson and signed cornerback Glenn Sharpe.
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Patterson was originally signed as an undrafted rookie free agent by the Falcons on May 1, 2007. The Ohio State graduate spent the 2007 campaign on the injured reserve list with a foot injury.
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Falcons agree to terms with Jackson, release Hutchins | AccessNorthGa
 
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Riders sign two defensive lineman

The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed import defensive end A.J. Raebel and import defensive tackle David Patterson.

Financial details of the contracts were not released.

Raebel, six-foot-five and 245 pounds, spent four seasons at the University of Wisconsin ? Whitewater. In 2008, Raebel signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Vikings.

The six-foot-two, 280-pound Patterson was a two-year starter at Ohio State. He signed with the Atlanta Falcons and spent the 2007 season on the team?s injured reserve list with a foot injury.
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Grateful guy

Former Ohio State defensive lineman David Patterson, a Warrensville Heights native, was one of 20 players invited for tryouts over the weekend. It was his second chance with the NFL after being released by the Atlanta Falcons in training camp last year. Even if he doesn't earn a contract, Patterson was thrilled by the experience.

''It's actually a dream come true no matter which way it goes, just to put the Browns' helmet on and practice, be in the facility, be around the coaches and be coached by a great coach like Bryan Cox,'' Patterson said.
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Ohio.com - Maiava chasing job with Browns
 
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OSU-Michigan game 2006: Where are they now
Published: Thursday, November 24, 2011
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

Where are they now? An update on some of the Ohio State starters from the 2006 OSU-Michigan game.

Defensive lineman

David Patterson

The Warrensville Heights High School grad, a senior starter on the defensive line and captain for the 2006 Buckeyes, will soon be showing up on television, but not on the football field. After a foot injury derailed his NFL hopes during his first season with the Atlanta Falcons, Patterson has settled in the Los Angeles suburbs with his wife, Anansa, and his 4-month-old daughter, Ava.

Patterson opened a State Farm insurance agency there, but that's not taking him to TV, either. His wife is a plus-size model and the daughter of Beverly Johnson, one of the first African-American super models. Also a part-time actress and a former judge on reality television modeling shows, Johnson now will be involved in another reality show.

Called "Beverly's Full House," it will feature, according to the show's press release, her attempts to bond with her daughter and son-in-law. That son-in-law is Patterson. The show will debut on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in February, but has been filming for months.

"The concept is that we all live in my mother-in-law's house," Patterson said, "so she can spend time with my wife and daughter. I'm on there sometimes."

Patterson's original plan was to have his agency in Columbus, but with his wife's California roots, they chose instead to move west. And it landed him on TV.
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http://www.cleveland.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/11/osu-michigan_game_2006_where_a.html
 
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Time & Change: David Patterson
Injury derailed his pro plans, but he's still on TV -- on the Oprah Winfrey Network
Updated: August 16, 2012
By Brad Bournival | BuckeyeNation

Time and Change is a series at BuckeyeNation where we chat with former Ohio State athletes.

David Patterson, 27, was a defensive tackle at Ohio State from 2003-06 after a successful high school career in Warrensville Heights, Ohio. He was a two-year starter and All-Big Ten selection with the Buckeyes.

A Lisfranc injury to his foot sidelined a professional career with the Atlanta Falcons and Saskatchewan Roughriders.

He currently resides in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., and is an insurance agent for State Farm in Upland. Patterson is also a defensive line coach for Los Osos High School.

He is married to model Anansa Sims-Patterson and appears on the reality television show "Beverly's Full House" on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

BuckeyeNation caught up with Patterson recently and talked about his injury, his venture into reality TV and how he keeps up with the Buckeyes.

BN: The foot injury, do you ever look back and wonder, 'What if?'

Patterson: I did. For the first couple years, I thought about it a lot. It happened in practice at the first minicamp. I was doing pretty well and someone just happened to step on my foot. The Falcons gave me a chance. They could have given me an injury settlement and let me go, but they saw potential in me and put me on injured reserve and paid me for a full year without even playing. The next year when I came back, I just wasn't the same player I was before and it was one of the things where I would have to do a lot of management with painkillers and then practice maybe two days before it would really hurt me. But after that it would hurt to get up and walk. It was pretty hard.

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David Patterson was a two-year starter for the Buckeyes at defensive tackle.

That injury ended Matt Schaub's season last year. The one thing is when you're a smaller guy, it can affect you, but not as much. When you're a bigger guy and have a mid-foot injury, it takes a lot to come back.

Basically it's like the ligaments in my foot got spread apart and they had to take two big screws and close my foot back together. When you're a bigger guy  when I was with the Falcons they wanted me at 310 [pounds]  it was really hard on my foot. I just wasn't the same player. I wasn't the biggest guy. My game was more quickness. With that injury, I didn't have any of that. I remember not being able to get off the ball how I used to. At that level, I needed to be at 100 percent. With that injury, I couldn't be at the level and be really effective.

BN: What lessons did Jim Tressel teach you that you have taken into your everyday life?

Patterson: The biggest thing he told me is to add value to anything you're a part of. I coach high school football at Los Osos and I was talking to my players about that the other day. I asked, "How can you add value to the team?" It's one thing to be on the team, but it's another to make the team better because you're a part of it.

I had a player telling me he was going to work in his dad's business and I told him to get his grades up. I told him, "That's all well and good, but do you want to just work for your dad? Do you just want to drive a truck around for your dad or do you want to add value to your dad's business by increasing the profit, by making big decisions, and making the business better by being a part of it?" That's what I've taken into my business life, I want to add value.

I'll tell you the other thing that Coach Tressel helped me with, I was always the type of person that cared about people, but he showed me that on a deeper level. He had so much going on with the football team. It was 105 guys and all the assistant coaches, but he would know the players' parents by their first name. He remembered the high school coaches. Just having that personal relationship with everyone he encountered, he made you believe he cared about you. For him to have those guys and to remember my grandmother's name or my mother's name, I always felt like that was something other guys from other schools didn't get from their coaches. Those coaches didn't seem to take an interest in their personal life or care about those things.

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http://espn.go.com/colleges/osu/story/_/id/8274711/former-defensive-lineman-david-patterson
 
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