Drew Hollingshead - Football Coach

Drew Hollingshead

Title:
Assistant Football Coach (Inside Receivers)
Phone:
325-3470

Drew Hollingshead has served as an offensive assistant under Mike Leach for the last six seasons working primarily with quarterbacks. He boasts more than a decade's worth of experience in the record-setting Air Raid offense.

Hollingshead has been instrumental in helping develop Air Raid quarterbacks Luke Faulk (WSU), Gardner Minshew II (WSU), Anthony Gordon (WSU) and most recently Will Rogers (MSU) into some of the most prolific passers in college football. Faulk, Minshew II, Gordon and Rogers have each posted 4,000-plus yard passing seasons while ranking top five nationally in passing yards per game. In fact, Minshew II led the nation in passing in 2018 (367.6 ypg) and Gordon continued the trend in 2019 (429.2 ypg).

Hollingshead has helped mentor Rogers the last two seasons in Starkville. In 2021, Rogers – at only 20 years old – became the first MSU quarterback to lead the SEC in passing yards per game (364.5). His 4,739 passing yards are the third most in SEC single-season history (the two quarterbacks ahead of Rogers played in two more games than he did during their respective seasons). Rogers and 2019 Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow of LSU are the only QBs in college football over the last 22 seasons to throw for 4,700+ yards and 35+ touchdowns while completing at least 73 percent of their passes. After breaking nearly every freshman passing mark in MSU history in 2020, Rogers broke 25 more records during his sophomore season in 2021, including Dak Prescott’s records for single-season total offense, passing yards and passing touchdowns. Prescott set those records as a fourth-year junior and fifth-year senior.

A native of Rockwall, Texas, Hollingshead joined Leach at Washington State in February of 2016. He began his stint on the Cougars coaching staff as an offensive graduate assistant before becoming a quality control coach in 2018, a season where WSU posted its first 11-win season in school history and earned a share of the Pac-12 North Division title. The Cougars were ranked in the top 13 of each of the College Football Playoff rankings, including four consecutive weeks at No. 8.

Before his time at WSU, Hollingshead spent three seasons at Texas A&M-Commerce, where he served first as a quality control coach/quarterbacks coach in 2013 before moving on to a more on-the-field coaching role working with the Lion quarterbacks for the start of the 2014 season. Prior to Commerce, Hollingshead coached at Hyde Park Baptist High School in Austin, Texas, under coach Dean Campbell. He served an internship in spring 2013 with the Toronto Argonauts football staff in the Canadian Football League.

Hollingshead attended the University of Houston, where he played quarterback and graduated in three years with a degree in sports administration in August of 2012.