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Drew Tate (born October 8, 1984) is an American gridiron football coach and former player. He is an offensive assistant coach for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football as a quarterback at the University of Iowa and was signed by the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2007. Tate has played professionally for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Calgary Stampeders and Ottawa Redblacks in the CFL. He was a defensive analyst at Coastal Carolina University in 2018, before coming out of retirement to rejoin the Roughriders. On December 17, 2018, Tate retired from playing and was named quarterbacks coach for the BC Lions the following day. He has also been a coach for the TSL Alphas, and at UT Martin and the University of Northern Iowa.
He originally committed to Texas A&M, but de-committed after R. C. Slocum was replaced with Dennis Franchione. Tate also noted that he would likely sit behind established starter Reggie McNeal, Quarterback recruit withdraws pledge so he chose to play for the University of Iowa under coach Kirk Ferentz. He played in the 2003 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
On November 9, 2010, Tate signed a contract extension with the Stampeders. Due to ineffective play by incumbent quarterback
Tate guides Stamps to victory in first career start Tate went on to lead the Stampeders to three straight wins to the finish off the regular season. Drew Tate made his first CFL Playoff start against the Edmonton Eskimos. Tate struggled throwing 5 completions in 10 attempts for 99 yards and an interception. At the start of the second half he was replaced by Henry Burris who could not lead the Stamps to victory, thus ending the season. In the off-season the Stamps traded away Burris making Tate the starting quarterback.
He opened the 2012 CFL season with a dominant win over the Montreal Alouettes. However, in the second week of the season Tate suffered a dislocated shoulder in his non-throwing arm. Tate opted to perform surgery on it immediately, seemingly ending his season. However, Tate returned to play in the final two games of the regular season. Tate was announced the starter for Stamps home game of the Western Division Semi-Finals against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He broke his forearm and may have suffered a concussion during the game but played the entire game nonetheless. His 68-yard TD pass to Romby Bryant with only 20 seconds left gave the Stamps the victory. However, the broken forearm caused him to miss the Western Final and the 100th Grey Cup.
In Week 2 of the 2013 CFL season Tate could not finish the game after straining a forearm muscle in his throwing arm early in the game. 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. 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. Tate was expected to return to the starting position for Week 7, however, he suffered a setback to his throwing arm in practice leading up to the game on August 9. On August 8, it was announced that Tate would miss an additional two to three weeks. Coach John Hufnagel compared the injury to tennis elbow. Tate finished the 2013 season having only played in 7 games due to various injuries. In the off-season starting quarterback Kevin Glenn was selected by the Ottawa RedBlacks in the Expansion Draft. On January 14, 2014, Tate was signed to a contract extension.
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. He scored two one-yard rushing touchdowns in the Stampeders' 20–16 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 102nd Grey Cup. As a passer Tate attempted his second most passes in a single season with 111, completing a career low of only 59.5% of them. Less than one month prior to becoming a free-agent Drew Tate and the Stampeders agreed to a contract extension. 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.
| 2009 | CGY | 18 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 81.8 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 99.8 | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | CGY | 18 | 0 | 44 | 62 | 71.0 | 521 | 7 | 0 | 133.9 | 36 | 189 | 5.3 | 40 | 5 | 1 |
| 2011 | CGY | 13 | 3 | 101 | 158 | 63.9 | 1,346 | 8 | 5 | 94.6 | 44 | 149 | 3.4 | 16 | 4 | 1 |
| 2012 | CGY | 8 | 3 | 46 | 63 | 73.0 | 570 | 4 | 3 | 102.0 | 4 | 31 | 7.8 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | CGY | 18 | 2 | 59 | 87 | 67.8 | 755 | 5 | 1 | 109.1 | 20 | 77 | 3.9 | 16 | 3 | 1 |
| 2014 | CGY | 18 | 4 | 66 | 111 | 59.5 | 823 | 5 | 3 | 86.3 | 42 | 129 | 3.1 | 15 | 10 | 2 |
| 2015 | CGY | 18 | 1 | 28 | 37 | 75.7 | 322 | 3 | 1 | 117.2 | 9 | 14 | 1.6 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | CGY | 18 | 1 | 27 | 43 | 62.8 | 255 | 0 | 2 | 59.7 | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | OTT | 18 | 1 | 30 | 43 | 69.8 | 338 | 3 | 1 | 106.5 | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | SSK | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | SSK | West Semi-Final | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2007 | SSK | West Final | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2008 | SSK | West Semi-Final | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | CGY | West Semi-Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2009 | CGY | West Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2010 | CGY | West Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2011 | CGY | West Semi-Final | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 99 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 2012 | CGY | West Semi-Final | 1 | 1 | 36 | 22 | 363 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 2012 | CGY | West Final | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2013 | CGY | West Final | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 90 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 2014 | CGY | West Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2015 | CGY | West Semi-Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2015 | CGY | West Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2016 | CGY | West Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2017 | OTT | East Semi-Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2018 | SSK | West Semi-Final | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2007 | SSK | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2012 | CGY | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2014 | CGY | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 2016 | CGY | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - |
Tate spent the 2021 season as the quarterbacks coach at UT Martin before joining the Northern Iowa staff as the tight ends coach. In early February 2023, Tate returned to coach in Canada, accepting a job as the receivers coach for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
On March 5, 2024, it was announced that Tate had joined the Toronto Argonauts as an offensive assistant coach. He won the 111th Grey Cup in his first year with the Argonauts.
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