BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Scales was born on February 11th, 1988, in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a long snapper in the National Football League.
He attended Weber High School, he played tight end, defensive end and long snapper for the football team and earned second-team All-Region honors playing TE, DE, and long snapper as a senior. He also played basketball and baseball and was an Academic All-State and all-Region honoree.
Scales played college football for the Aggies at Utah state university; he redshirted as a true freshman in 2006 after walking on to the team. As a redshirt freshman in 2007, appeared in every game, collecting 2 STTs and following the season, was awarded a full scholarship by the coaching staff.
He saw action in 40 games during his career at Utah State, serving as the team’s long snapper his final three seasons. Scales was rated as the 11th best long snapper in the 2011 NFL Draft by NFLDraftScout.com
Scales signed with the Baltimore Ravens on July 27, 2011, as an undrafted agent; he spent training camp with the team but was released before the start of the regular season. Scales spent a majority of the 2012 offseason and training camp with Baltimore but was released before the beginning of the regular season.
In 2013 he was signed by Miami during the offseason but was released before training camp; he signed with the NYJ and spent training camp with them. During the 2014 season, he appeared in 2 contests for Baltimore handling the long-snapping duties and made his NFL debut on December 21 at HOU. He was team’s long snapper for both postseason contests and spent part of the 2014 offseason with TB.
Scales signed with the Chicago Bears on November 28, 2015, he appeared in 5 contests (games 12-16) as the Bears long snapper and spent the preseason with Baltimore. During the 2016 season, he appeared in 16 games as the team’s long snapper. Scales spend the 2017 season in the Injured Reserve list.
During the 2018 season scales appeared in 16 games and the Wild Card playoff game against Philadelphia (1/6/19).
On March 15, 2022, Scales signed a one-year, $1.27 million contract extension with Chicago. He signed a contract extension on March 10, 2023.
