Utah State University Athletics

Austin Gatewood is in his first season as a senior analyst for defense at Utah State. The 2025 campaign will be Gatewood’s second year working for head coach Bronco Mendenhall. In his role, Gatewood will work on practice planning, analytics and pregame scouting.
 
Gatewood came to Utah State after serving as a defensive analyst at New Mexico during the 2024 season. At UNM, he helped the Lobos to a 5-7 record, marking the program’s most wins in eight years. Highlighting their season was a 38-35 victory against No. 19 Washington State, snapping a 26-game losing streak against nationally ranked teams.
 
At New Mexico, Gatewood helped mentor three defenders who earned All-Mountain West honors as the team ranked third in the conference and 29th in the nation with two defensive touchdowns. 
 
Gatewood spent the 2023 season as the outside linebackers coach at East Tennessee State. In 2022, he was a defensive quality control staffer with Vanderbilt and worked under USU defensive coordinator Nick Howell.
 
At Vanderbilt, Gatewood spent four seasons, starting as a football operations intern before moving into a defensive graduate assistant role, followed by a defensive quality control role.
 
Gatewood played four years at East Tennessee State, starting in 42 of 45 possible games and totaling 169 career tackles with 23 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, eight forced fumbles and two interceptions.
 
A native of Ooltewah, Tennessee, Gatewood earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from ETSU in 2017 and a master’s in liberal arts and sciences from Vanderbilt in 2022.