1. Drew Tate was born on October 8,1984 and is an American gridiron football coach and former player.
38 Facts About Drew Tate
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Drew Tate is an offensive assistant coach for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
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Drew Tate played college football as a quarterback at the University of Iowa and was signed by the St Louis Rams of the National Football League as an undrafted free agent in 2007.
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Drew Tate was a defensive analyst at Coastal Carolina University in 2018, before coming out of retirement to rejoin the Roughriders.
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On December 17,2018, Drew Tate retired from playing and was named quarterbacks coach for the BC Lions the following day.
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Drew Tate has been a coach for the TSL Alphas, and at UT Martin and the University of Northern Iowa.
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Drew Tate noted that he would likely sit behind established starter Reggie McNeal, so he chose to play for the University of Iowa under coach Kirk Ferentz.
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Drew Tate played in the 2003 US Army All-American Bowl.
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On May 3,2007, Drew Tate signed with the St Louis Rams as a free agent, but he became expendable after the Rams signed Brock Berlin.
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Drew Tate signed with the Calgary Stampeders on June 3,2009.
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On November 9,2010, Drew Tate signed a contract extension with the Stampeders.
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Drew Tate went on to lead the Stampeders to three straight wins to the finish off the regular season.
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Drew Tate made his first CFL Playoff start against the Edmonton Eskimos.
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Drew Tate struggled throwing 5 completions in 10 attempts for 99 yards and an interception.
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Drew Tate opened the 2012 CFL season with a dominant win over the Montreal Alouettes.
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However, in the second week of the season Drew Tate suffered a dislocated shoulder in his non-throwing arm.
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Drew Tate opted to perform surgery on it immediately, seemingly ending his season.
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However, Drew Tate returned to play in the final two games of the regular season.
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Drew Tate was announced the starter for Stamps home game of the Western Division Semi-Finals against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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Drew Tate confessed to feeling pain in the same muscle in the month prior to the injury but played through the pre-season and majority of the first 2 weeks.
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Drew Tate was listed as day-to-day and did not start Week 3 against the Montreal Alouettes; his back-up QB Kevin Glenn played in his place.
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Drew Tate finished the 2013 season having only played in 7 games due to various injuries.
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On January 14,2014, Drew Tate was signed to a contract extension.
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Drew Tate was primarily used in short yardage situations and led the CFL in rushing touchdowns during the 2014 season with ten scores as the backup to Bo Levi Mitchell.
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Drew Tate continued as the Stamps backup quarterback behind Bo Levi Mitchell for the 2015 and 2016 seasons; starting in only 1 game each season to rest Mitchell for the playoffs.
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On February 21,2017, Drew Tate was traded to the Ottawa Redblacks for a fifth-round draft pick in the 2018 CFL Draft.
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Drew Tate was the team's back-up quarterback and started one game for the Redblacks after incumbent starter, Trevor Harris, was out due to injury.
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Drew Tate was released on the eve of 2018 free agency on February 12,2018.
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On June 1,2018, Drew Tate announced his retirement, and accepted a coaching position at Coastal Carolina as a defensive analyst.
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On November 3,2018, the final day of the 2018 regular season, Drew Tate came out of retirement to join the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the team he started his CFL career with ten years prior.
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The Roughriders were on a bye week during week 20, but Drew Tate was active for the Roughriders playoff loss to the Blue Bombers.
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On December 17,2018, Drew Tate announced he was again retiring from the Canadian Football League.
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Drew Tate entered the coaching ranks with Coastal Carolina University in 2018 as a defensive coach.
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Drew Tate coached receivers, tight ends, and running backs for the Alphas, and was involved in a sideline fight with Conquerors quarterback Justin McMillan during week 2.
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Drew Tate spent the 2021 season as the quarterbacks coach at UT Martin before joining the Northern Iowa staff as the tight ends coach.
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In early February 2023, Drew Tate returned to coach in Canada, accepting a job as the receivers coach for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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On March 5,2024, it was announced that Drew Tate had joined the Toronto Argonauts as an offensive assistant coach.
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Drew Tate won the 111th Grey Cup in his first year with the Argonauts.