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2025 Football Roster

10 Ben Patterson

  • Position Wide Receiver
  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 220
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Fort Worth, Texas
  • Highschool All Saints

Biography

Awards:
  • 2X Second-Team All-Lone Star Conference Offense (WR) (2023, 2025)
  • Honorable Mention All-Lone Star Conference (WR) (2024)
  • Lone Star Conference All-Academic Team (2023)
  • College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Football Team (2024)
2025 (Redshirt Senior):
Earned his third-career All-LSC recognition and second such nod to the second-team... Was the top wide receiver on the all-conference teams for the Falcons... Played in all 14 games, his third season in a row playing in every game... Totaled 32 catches, ranked third on the team in receiving yards (678), and was fourth with five touchdown catches. It was his second season in a row with five touchdown catches and 30 points... Averaged 21.19 yards per catch and 48.43 receiving yards per game... Had at least one catch in all 11 games and surpassed his previous season total for receiving yards for the third year in a row... In all of NCAA Division II, Patterson ranked 11th in yards per reception... Was on the receiving end of UTPB's first touchdown of the season, a 24-yard score in the first quarter during UTPB's victory over No. 5 Central Oklahoma (Aug. 30)... Caught a 73-yard touchdown to give the Falcons a 14-10 third-quarter lead at the time against No. 13 Central Washington (Oct. 11)... His long catch of the season of 75 yards, which tied for the third-longest reception in the LSC this season, also went for a touchdown against Eastern New Mexico (Nov. 8) and was tied for the second-longest touchdown pass in the LSC this season. He finished with four catches for 99 yards against the Greyhounds. In the previous game he finished with three catches for 115 yards and a touchdown against Western New Mexico (Nov. 1), good for the fifth 100-yard receiving game of his career... Owned two of the top-seven and four of the top-16 longest catches (75, 73, 59, 55) in the LSC this season... Recorded his fourth four-catch game of the season and added 62 receiving yards to help UTPB earn its first playoff win in program history over Colorado State Pueblo (Nov. 22)... Has totaled at least five receiving touchdowns with at least 500 receiving yards in each of the last three seasons... With 1,774 career receiving yards, Patterson is second in program history and is just 19 yards shy of the program record of 1,793 receiving yards... Lastly, Patterson's 16 career receiving touchdowns are good for the third-most in program history.

2024 (Redshirt Junior):
Was named Honorable Mention All-LSC... Played in all 12 games... Ranked third on the team with five touchdown catches and 527 receiving yards, was fourth with 30 receptions... Averaged 17.6 yards per catch and 43.9 receiving yards per game... With five touchdowns, he was fifth on the team in scoring (30 points)... Was the fourth UTPB wide receiver to enter the 1,000-Yard Club during the season (1,096 career yards)...Was sixth in yards per catch, was tied for sixth in receiving touchdowns, and was ninth in receiving yards in the conference... Caught a 54-yard touchdown pass on the Falcons' second play of the game and had four catches for a career-high 161 receiving yards (fourth-most receiving yards in a single game in UTPB history) in UTPB's 21-7 road win at West Texas A&M (Oct. 26)... Also had touchdown catches of 71 yards (Sept. 21 vs. Texas A&M-Kingsville) and 83 yards (Aug. 31 vs. Western New Mexico), giving him three touchdowns of 50-plus yards throughout the season... His 11 career touchdowns are tied for the third-most in program history... Named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team... Earned 2025 D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award.

2023 (Redshirt Sophomore):
Played in 12 games... Caught 31 passes for 503 yards (16.23 ypc) and six touchdowns... Had his first collegiate touchdown catch in the season opener against Texas College (Sept. 2)... Had season-highs of six catches for 142 yards and two touchdowns vs. Western Oregon (Oct. 28)... Ranked among the top-10 in the Lone Star Conference for yards per reception... LSC All-Academic Football Team… All-LSC second team.

2022 (Redshirt Freshman):
Played in five games... Caught five passes for 66 yards... Was a member of the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll in both semesters (Fall 2022, Spring 2023).

2021-22 (Freshman):
Was a member of the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll in Spring 2022 (4.0 GPA).

Fort Worth All Saints High School:
First-Team All-PGFL.

Statistics

Season:
2025

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Wide Receiver
    6'5" 210 lbs
  • 88

    2022Freshman

    Wide Receiver
    6'5" 210 lbs
    88
  • 88

    2023Sophomore

    Wide Receiver
    6'5" 215 lbs
    88
  • 10

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Wide Receiver
    6'5" 215 lbs
    10
  • 10

    2025Redshirt Senior

    Wide Receiver
    6'5" 220 lbs
    10