# Silly Football Question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-football-question/128564 "2002-09-15T18:49:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![High\_Deity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@High\_Deity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Deity)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-football-question/128564/1 "2002-09-15T18:49:25Z")

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I don’t have any good reference books, so I am putting this question out to the masses:

Has there ever been a case in Pro Football where a single player scored a touchdown via rushing, recieveing, and passing in a single game? a single season?

I’m sure it’s been done in a career, but can’t go anywhere to check. Thanks everyone.

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-football-question/128564/2 "2002-09-15T20:26:32Z")

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David Patten did it last year for New England against Indianapolis.  
Patten had a 29 yard TD run, scored on a 91 yard pass from Tom Brady, and threw a 60 yard TD to Troy Brown. And that was just the first half!  
He caught another TD pass in the second half.  
Walter Payton did the same thing in 1979.

I would imagine that it happened more frequently in ther early years of the NFL before the T-Formation was introduced.