Cornerback, LSU, 2008–10
Patrick Peterson
- Number
- No. 7
- Height
- 6′1″
- Hometown
- Pompano Beach, FL
- Born
- Jul 11, 1990, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Patrick Peterson played cornerback at LSU (2008–10). He won the 2010 Chuck Bednarik Award and the 2010 Jim Thorpe Award. He was a consensus All‑American in 2010. The Arizona Cardinals took Peterson in the first round, No. 5 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Career highs
2interceptions, career highvs. Mississippi State, 2010Honors
- 2009Second-team All-SEC
- 2010Chuck Bednarik Award
- 2010Jim Thorpe Award
- 2010Jack Tatum Trophy
- 2010Consensus All‑American
- 2010SEC Special Teams Player of the Year
- 2010First-team All-SEC
All-America: consensus 2010; Sporting News second team 2009; ESPN 2009; Pro Football Weekly 2009
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Returns
Defense
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short. Kickoff returns are in our source’s box scores from 2009; before that most are missing, so return totals from those years may leave them out. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Int | PBU | FF | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 | 32 | 9 | 41 | 1.5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 12 | 43 | 9 | 52 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 13 | 29 | 13 | 42 | 1.5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| On file | 104 | 31 | 135 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 1 | 2 | |
Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.
On the roster
As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.
Game by game
2010 LSU 13 games, 70 returns, 1,350 yards
| Date | Opponent | Result | KR | Yds | PR | Yds | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | vs. North Carolina | W 30–24 | 3 | 100 | 4 | 157 | – |
| Sep 11 | at Vanderbilt | W 27–3 | 2 | 51 | 6 | 8 | – |
| Sep 18 | vs. Mississippi State | W 29–7 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Sep 25 | vs. West Virginia | W 20–14 | – | – | 2 | 86 | – |
| Oct 2 | vs. Tennessee | W 16–14 | 3 | 64 | 3 | 30 | – |
| Oct 9 | at Florida | W 33–29 | 4 | 106 | 1 | 0 | – |
| Oct 16 | vs. McNeese | W 32–10 | 2 | 63 | 2 | 34 | – |
| Oct 23 | at Auburn | L 17–24 | 4 | 99 | 3 | 18 | – |
| Nov 6 | vs. Alabama | W 24–21 | 2 | 45 | 3 | 22 | – |
| Nov 13 | vs. UL Monroe | W 51–0 | – | – | 3 | 31 | 1 |
| Nov 20 | vs. Ole Miss | W 43–36 | 4 | 121 | 3 | 30 | 1 |
| Nov 27 | at Arkansas | L 23–31 | 4 | 163 | 5 | 0 | – |
| Jan 7 ✦ | vs. Texas A&M | W 41–24 | 3 | 81 | 1 | 0 | – |
2009 LSU 2 games, 2 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | KR | Yds | PR | Yds | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26 | atMississippi State | W 30–26 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Oct 31 | vs. Tulane | W 42–0 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
2008 LSU 2 games, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | KR | Yds | PR | Yds | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18 | at South Carolina | W 24–17 | – | – | 1 | 6 | – |
| Nov 8 | vs.Alabama | L 21–27 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2011 |
|---|---|
| Height | 6′0¼″ |
| Weight | 219 lb |
| Arm length | 32″ |
| Hand size | 9¼″ |
| Wingspan | 78″W |
| 40-yard dash | 4.38 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.57 sW |
| Vertical jump | 38″ |
| Broad jump | 10′6″ |
| Bench press | 15 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 6.58 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.07 s |
Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the NFL
13 seasons, 200 games with a stat; latest team: Pittsburgh Steelers.
Pro Bowls: 8 (2011–18) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 3 (2011, 2013, 2015)
All-Pro teams: AP first team 2011, 2013, 2015; Pro Football Writers first team 2011, 2013, 2015; Sporting News first team 2011, 2015, 2018.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 63 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 53 | 0 | 7 |
| 2013 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 42 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 47 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 35 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 50 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 34 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 51 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | Arizona Cardinals | 10 | 52 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 60 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | Minnesota Vikings | 13 | 44 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | Minnesota Vikings | 17 | 60 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 16 | 37 | 0 | 2 |
| NFL career | 200 | 628 | 4 | 36 | |
Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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