Patrick Scales Bio
Patrick Scales is an American football long snapper born February 11, 1988, in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Utah State, where he served as the team’s long snapper during his final three seasons. Scales entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with Baltimore in 2011 and spent several years working to establish himself before appearing in a regular-season game with the Ravens in December 2014. He joined the Chicago Bears in 2015 after earlier affiliations with Baltimore and Miami.
With Chicago, Scales became a long-term specialist on the club’s special-teams unit and was recognized by the Bears as their longest-tenured player when the team announced a one-year contract extension on March 10, 2024. The 2024 Bears media guide lists him at 6 feet 3 inches and 226 pounds, with Utah State as his college. That guide records his 2024 Bears contract as a one-year agreement, while the Bears’ transaction log later documented his placement on injured reserve on August 28, 2024. A current 2026 team affiliation was not established in the retrieved official roster material, so his later status is not described as active employment.
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