Biography
Teo Redding is back for his fourth season with the Pirates. Last year, in 15 games, Redding led the team in receptions (52), receiving yards (634), and was tied for the team lead with 15 TD receptions.
Redding had back-to-back 100-yard receiving games last season. Against the Iowa Barnstormers, he pulled in five catches for 114 yards and registered a team record 49-yard touchdown reception. The following week, against the Tulsa Oilers, he had five catches for 100 yards and three touchdowns, which was a career best.
It was the second consecutive season where he led the Pirates in receiving yards. A durable wideout, Redding started all 16 regular-season games in 2024 and topped the Pirates with 611 receiving yards. He was second on the team with 53 receptions and second with 11 touchdown receptions.
In the Pirates' run to the 2024 IFL National Championship game, the 6’3”, 205 lb. wideout from Warren, MI played in all three postseason games, catching ten passes for 116 yards and four touchdowns, including a pair in the quarterfinal win over Green Bay and one in the Championship game against Arizona.
Redding, who played in one game for the Pirates in 2022, spent 2022 and 2023 with the Houston Gamblers in the USFL, where he was selected with the eighth pick in the eighth round of the league’s supplemental draft. Redding started 16 of the 17 games in which he appeared for Houston, making 30 receptions for 425 yards with one touchdown.
As for his all-time numbers with the Pirates, Redding has started 29 of the 31 games that he has played, with 105 receptions for 1,291 receiving yards with 26 touchdowns. He has rushed 12 times for 42 yards and a touchdown, recorded one UNO, and returned two kickoffs for 27 yards. He has scored 165 points and has 1,330 all-purpose yards.
Prior to the Pirates, Redding played collegiately at Bowling Green University and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Detroit Lions of the National Football League in 2018. That same season, he spent time on the practice squads of the Washington Football Team and the Green Bay Packers. In 2020, Redding signed with the New York Guardians in the XFL and played in five games, making one start before that season was lost to the pandemic. With New York, he recorded eight receptions for 102 yards. In 2021, he signed a contract with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.
At Bowling Green, the communications major played in 44 games, earning 19 starts. Redding totaled 84 receptions for 1,328 yards and 14 touchdowns. In 2017, as a senior, Redding earned Second Team All-MAC honors as in 11 games he posted career bests in receptions with 45, receiving yards with 624, and touchdowns, finding the endzone eight times, which led the team.
