Colorado University Athletics
2025 Football Roster
vs
West Virginia
Nov 8 (Sat)
10 a.m.

Jersey Number 29
Ivan Yates
- Position:
- Cornerback
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 170
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Roswell, Ga.
- High School:
- Roswell
- Prev School:
- Furman
AT COLORADO
2024 (Gr.)
2024 (Gr.)
- Saw action in 11 games, primarily on special teams.
- Played in seven games on defense, seeing the field for 53 snaps and finished with five tackles.
- Played on four different special teams groups: kickoff, punt return, punt coverage, and field goal block.
- 247 Sports lists him with a transfer rating of .8300 as the No. 1,620 ranked player overall and No. 219 cornerback (as of July 27, 2024).
- Comes to Colorado as a graduate transfer with one year to play one.
- Played in 37 games across four seasons at Furman finishing with 93 total tackles, three-and-a-half for loss, one sack,13 pass deflections, one interception, and one forced fumble.
- Named to the 2022 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
- He started all 13 games in 2023 with 40 tackles, one tackle for loss, and five pass deflections.
- Earned playing time in all 13 games in 2022 starting in two. Credited with 35 tackles, six pass breakups, an interception, one sack, and a forced fumble.
- In 2021 he started the first four games before being sidelined for the rest of the season due to injury. Before injury he had 13 tackles, half a tackle for loss, and one pass deflection.
- During his freshman campaign he saw the field in seven games as a backup cornerback with five tackles and one tackle for loss.
- Played for head coach Matt Kemper at Roswell high school in Georgia.
- Helped lead Roswell to an 8-3 record as a senior, a Region 4-AAAAAAA championship, and a second round playoff appearance.
- Also competed in track and field.
- Son of Nile and Cory Yates.
- Has a sister, Brooke.
- Father played football at Texas A&M Commerce.
- Born on March 3, 2002.
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