Tennessee’s versatile Cordarrelle Patterson had 219 receiving yards against Troy in Saturday’s game at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville.KNOXVILLE — Cordarrelle Patterson makes his wide array of jukes, cuts, spins and open-field dances look so easy.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget it all takes its toll on the Tennessee receiver.
The Volunteers’ all-purpose star needed an IV at halftime of the Vols’ escape of Troy on Saturday, but he capped off a 150-yard first half by turning in just the eighth 200-yard receiving game in Tennessee history.
“Going back and just looking at it just put a big smile on my face,” Patterson said Monday of his 219-yard performance. “Doing all that cutting and stuff just ran me out of gas. I don’t think I could have did nothing else after that.
“I really don’t know [why]. It happened to me before, but I just stayed out and rested a lot. I just needed some energy.”