Ty Okada

Early life

Ty Okada grew up in Woodbury, Minnesota, and attended East Ridge High School. He was a two-time All-Section selection and 2017 All-Star selection in baseball during his high school career. Okada was a multiple team captain for wrestling and also a two-time MSHSL State qualifier, earning All-State honors his sophomore year. In football, Okada was named team captain his senior season and earned the All-District Offensive Player of the Year honors as a quarterback.

College career

Okada joined the Montana State Bobcats as a walk-on and redshirted his true freshman season where he won the "Young Gun" award. He played mostly on special teams as a redshirt freshman. During his redshirt sophomore season, Okada missed most of the regular season due to injury. Okada would return to start for the Bobcats after the injury to make his first career start at safety during the first round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs against Incarnate Word. During that redshirt sophomore season, Okada also earned the Montana State coaches' award for Special Teams Player of the Year. he was named second-team All-Big Sky Conference as a redshirt junior after making 78 tackles with six tackles for loss, two interceptions, and eight passes broken up while helping lead his team to the FCS National Championship Game in Frisco, Texas. He repeated as a second-team All-Big Sky selection after finishing his redshirt senior season with 73 tackles, three sacks, one interception, a blocked punt against Eastern Washington, and led the team with ten passes broken up.

Personal life

Okada has Celiac Disease, and follows a gluten-free diet. His favorite meal is gluten-free spaghetti.

Okada attended an immersion school for much of his youth, and is fluent in Spanish.

During media week for Super Bowl LX, Okada stated that his last name is Japanese. Originating from his great-great-grandfather, Shigetomo Okada, who immigrated to the United States through Seattle before settling in Minnesota to study engineering.