Nate Ollie

Nathan Christopher Ollie (born January 8, 1992) is an American professional football coach and former defensive tackle who is the defensive line coach for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). Ollie played college football for the Ball State Cardinals.

Early life and college career Ollie attended Mount Carmel High School in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, where he played football. After graduating high school, Ollie attended Ball State University, where he continued to play football. While at Ball State, Ollie was named to the second-team All-MAC team in 2011 and 2013. Ollie initially studied criminal justice and intended to be a police officer while at Ball State until his junior year, when his father, Anthony, died. After his current defensive line coach at Ball State, Chad Wilt, drove Ollie to and from his father's funeral in Chicago, Ollie became motivated to change his career path to coaching following a conversation with Wilt during the drive back.

Coaching career After graduating from Ball State, Ollie first worked as an assistant coach at Yorktown Middle School. After a year there, Ollie joined the NFL as an assistant defensive line coach for the Philadelphia Eagles. Ollie spent two years there until taking the same job for the New York Jets in 2021. In 2022, Ollie was elevated to defensive line coach after joining the Indianapolis Colts. While with the Colts, Ollie helped raise the number of sacks from 33 in the year before his arrival to 44 in 2022, and then 51 in 2023, which was the most since the team moved to Indianapolis in 1984. In his lone season with the Texans, Ollie helped the team reach 49 sacks on the season, tied for fourth most in the NFL and the most in a single season in Texans history. After one year in Houston, Ollie again became the sole defensive line coach after being hired by the Atlanta Falcons in 2025. Ollie's hiring was intended to revitalize the Falcons' pass rush, which has finished near the bottom of the NFL in sacks over the past four years, with Ollie's energetic coaching.