Nate Potter Returning for Another Year on The Blue

BOISE, Idaho – Boise State Hall of Famer Nate Potter will return to the Broncos coaching staff in 2024, adding the title of Co-Offensive Coordinator to his duties. The 2024 season will be his seventh overall on the Boise State staff.

During the past two seasons, Potter served as run game coordinator and tight ends coach. His success with those areas prompted Danielson to add the title of Co-OC to Potter's repertoire.

"As an alumnus and an incredibly respected coach on all levels, it was important to work to keep Nate Potter on our staff and his new title reflects that," Danielson said. "He has done a wonderful job developing our tight ends and working with our run game. In just the past two years he has made an impact on this program. I'm so glad he will be staying at his alma mater and in the Treasure Valley."

In 2023, Potter led a group of tight ends that did not allow a sack all season long and caught four touchdown passes on the year, totaling 275 yards receiving on 19 catches. Of those 275 yards, 101 of those came after the catch. Matt Lauter had a notable performance as part of a dominating win at Utah State as he caught two touchdown passes, marking the first time a Boise State tight end has scored twice in a game since 2017.

That success followed a 2022 season where Boise State's tight ends totaled 172 yards after the catch in a year where the group tallied 43 catches with 364 yards receiving and one touchdown while allowing one sack.

Potter, selected to the Boise State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018, had spent the previous three seasons (2019-21) at Montana State as tight ends coach, helping to lead the Bobcats to the Football Championship Subdivision title game this past year.

Potter spent the 2014-17 seasons on the Broncos' coaching staff, his first as a quality control assistant and his final three as an offensive graduate assistant.

In addition to helping to lead Montana State to the FCS Championship Game in 2021, the Bobcats also reached the FCS Playoffs Semifinals during Potter's debut season in 2019, finishing the season ranked No. 4.

Prior to joining the Bobcats' staff, Potter spent the 2018 season as the offensive line coach at the College of Idaho. The Yotes finished ranked No. 22 nationally in the NAIA national poll.

Potter initially joined the Bronco staff following his professional career in the National Football League, where he spent the 2012-13 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. Potter was drafted by the Cardinals in the seventh round of the 2012 NFL Draft and went on to appear in 21 games with six starts over two seasons.

A standout offensive tackle for the Broncos from 2008-11, Potter was a consensus All-American in 2011 when he was selected to the first teams of the Football Writers' Association of America, Yahoo Sports, CBSSports.com and The Sporting News. He joined Ryan Clady (2007) as the only consensus All-Americans in Boise State football history, a list that later added Avery Williams following the 2020 season.

He was named to the All-Mountain West First Team in 2011 after earning consecutive first-team All-Western Athletic Conference honors from 2009-10. Potter was part of the 2009 Fiesta Bowl Champion team and started each of the final 34 games of his Boise State career from 2009-11.

He was also named to the Academic All-America Team in 2011, and in 2010 earned a spot on the ESPN Academic All-America Team.

Potter graduated from Boise State with a degree in history in 2011 and earned his master's in athletic leadership in 2017.

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--BroncoSports.com--

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