Cordarrelle Patterson has faced 31 NFL teams. He’s never faced the one that drafted him.
The one that traded four picks to move up to No. 29 overall on April 25, 2013.
That box will be checked this Sunday at Gillette Stadium, where Patterson and the New England Patriots will host the Minnesota Vikings for a 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff.
Nearly six years have passed since Minnesota’s war room agreed to send a second-round pick, a third-rounder, a fourth-rounder and a seventh-rounder to New England in exchange for the wide receiver by way of Tennessee, Hutchinson Community College, North Carolina Tech Christian Academy and Rock Hill’s Northwestern High School.