Ex-Michigan football QB Shea Patterson won't give up dream: 'I believe I am an NFL quarterback'

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Shea Patterson didn’t know it at the time, but his final week as a member of the Michigan Panthers had just begun. As practice neared its end under a steel canopy on the University of Alabama-Birmingham campus earlier this month, one of his teammates playfully ran up behind him and swiped the ball away. The quarterback flashed a look of surprise before his expression dissolved into a big smile.