Drew Tate - Tight Ends - Football Coaches

Drew Tate

Title:
Tight Ends
Email:
andrew.tate@uni.edu

Drew Tate started at UNI in the spring of 2021 having coached in the Canadian Football League.

Tate started his professional football career as an undrafted free agent with the St. Louis Rams in 2007. He went on to play quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Calgary Stampeders and Ottawa Redblacks in the CFL. He was a defensive analyst for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers before serving as the quarterbacks coach for the BC Lions.

Once 2020 hit, COVID-19 shut down the CFL, so Tate coached the wide receivers in The Spring League (TSL) in 2020. He went on to coach tight ends in the FCF (Fan Controlled Football League) in the spring and then coached quarterbacks at University of Tennessee - Martin during the fall, including Keon Howard, who was the Player of the Year in the Ohio Valley Conference and Dresser Winn, the backup quarterback who won Martin's first-ever playoff game.

Tate is originally from Baytown, Texas, and played for the University of Iowa. From 2004-06, Tate ranked as one of the nation’s top signal callers as a Hawkeye. He continues to rank high in the Iowa record book for nearly every passing stat.

As a sophomore in 2004, he led Iowa to a share of the Big Ten title, earning first-team All-Big Ten honors while passing for more than 2,700 yards and 20 touchdowns. Tate is second in career passing yards (8,292), TD passes (61), completions (665), attempts (1,090), and total offense (8,427). He also completed a 56-yard scoring strike on the last play of the game to lead Iowa to a win over LSU in the 2005 Capital One Bowl.

Tate’s father, Dick Olin, is a UNI alum who played quarterback for Stan Sheriff from 1963-1967.