Hall of Fame
Johnson, Pat
Pat Johnson
- Induction:
- 2014
Questions lingered early whether he was a standout football player running track or a track phenom who played football. But there certainly was no debating that the Redlands, Calif., two-sport All-American could run, and run very fast. After setting the Ducks’ all-time freshman receiving record (30 catches, 472 yards) for a team that advanced to the 1995 Rose Bowl, the Ducks’ best multiple-event sprinter ever won the Pac-10 Conference 400-meter title and finished second in the league-championship 200 as a true freshman. Before he was finished, the two-time track & field All-American ranked among the school’s top three finishers of all time in the 100 (10.26), and 400 meters (45.38) while equaling Oregon’s 200-meter best (20.39). While there was no denying his prowess on the oval, it was the football field which provided his greatest theater. He emerged from a pack to return the opening kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown at Washington in 1995 to spearhead the Ducks’ first win in Seattle in 15 years. He struck again two years later in the same venue to haul in a diving 29-yard scoring catch in the final minutes to secure Oregon’s 31-28 win against its Northwest rivals. He capped his collegiate career on the receiving end of a 69-yard touchdown pass on the first play from scrimmage in the 1997 Las Vegas Bowl to increase his number of career scoring grabs longer than 40 yards to nine. Yet fewer single-game moments were any brighter than his 337 all-purpose yards in the 1997 regular-season finale vs. Oregon State which fell one yard shy of Ahmad Rashad’s single-game school record. Finishing third in the country in kickoff returns in 1996, the second-team All-America kick returner was drafted in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft by Baltimore.
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