Derham Cato

Biography

Derham Cato begins his first season on Head Coach Kirby Moore’s Cougar staff, serving as the run game coordinator/tight ends coach. Cato and Moore reconnect in Pullman after spending the past three seasons together at Missouri. Cato completed his third season at Missouri in 2025, his second serving as the program’s tight ends coach. Cato arrived in Columbia after coaching stops at Maine, Washington, Davidson, Vanderbilt and his alma mater, Dartmouth. This past season, Cato was part of an offense that ranked 30th nationally at 32.2 points per game. His tight end group total 40 receptions for 370 yards and seven touchdowns, led by Brett Norfleet who had 31 receptions, 254 yards and five TDs. In 2024, Cato helped coach Norfleet to a sophomore season in which he hauled in 26 receptions for 235 yards and a pair of touchdowns, ranking third on the squad in receptions and touchdowns while accumulating the fourth-most receiving yards on the team. After taking over a tight end unit that combined for just 10 receptions, 112 yards a pair of touchdowns in 2022, Cato helped more than double the unit’s production in 2023 as rising freshman Norfleet became the offensive focal point at the position. He logged 18 receptions for 197 yards and three touchdowns, earning SEC All-Freshman Team honors. Before a brief stint at Maine, Cato served as the tight ends coach at the University of Washington during the 2020 and 2021 seasons after spending four seasons as an offensive analyst with the progra