Brandon Tate
Tate with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2011
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| No. 15 Buffalo Bills | |||||||||||
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| Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | October 5, 1987 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Burlington, North Carolina | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||||
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| College: | North Carolina | ||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 2009 / Round: 3 / Pick: 83 | ||||||||||
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| Roster status: | Active | ||||||||||
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| Career NFL statistics as of Week 15, 2016 | |||||||||||
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| Receptions: | 65 |
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| Receiving yards: | 1,018 |
| Total return yards: | 6,909 |
| Total touchdowns: | 9 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Brandon Tate (born October 5, 1987) is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina.
Tate attended Hugh M. Cummings High School in Burlington, North Carolina, where he played football as a wide receiver, kick returner, and defensive back and basketball as a guard. In basketball, he won a state title in his junior season. In his 2004 senior football season, Tate had 66 receptions and 18 touchdowns, earning All-Conference honors.
Tate's brother, Barry, was a four-year letterwinner for Lenoir-Rhyne University in football.
After graduating from high school in 2005, Tate attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tate was one of seven true freshman to see game time. Tate played in all eleven games as a kick returner. In the Tar Heels game against the Utah Utes, Tate returned the opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown. Tate finished the season with 21 kick returns for 542 yards, and 29 punt returns for 267 yards. Tate finished 22nd in the country in kick off returns. In his freshman season, Tate finished second in the Atlantic Coast Conference in kick returns and third in punt returns.
In his sophomore season, Tate was one of only three players in the country to return two kickoffs for touchdowns. Brandon Tate caught his first pass from Cameron Sexton, in the Tar Heels game against the Virginia Tech Hokies. The pass was for 13 yards, with the catch happening just before the end of the first half. In the Tar Heels' game against Notre Dame, Tate returned a kick off 90 yards for a touchdown. Tate faked a pitch to teammate Quinton Person, and bolted down the field into the end zone. In the final game of the Tar Heels season, against Duke, Tate performed very well. With seventeen seconds remaining in the first half of the game, Tate returned a kick off 97 yards for a touchdown. That 97 yard return tied third longest return in North Carolina's history. Early in the fourth quarter, Tate returned a punt 54 yards for a touchdown. Tate became the third person in North Carolina football history and the ninth player in NCAA history to return a kickoff and a punt for a touchdown in the same game. Tate caught his first pass, a 17-yard reception, from Cameron Sexton.
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