Mizzou football QB Drew Lock, former coach Andy Hill named to Tigers Hall of Fame
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- Drew Lock and Andy Hill were named to the Mizzou Hall of Fame class.
- Lock finished his Mizzou career with 12,193 passing yards and 99 touchdowns.
- Andy Hill served on Missouri’s coaching staff for 24 seasons in various roles.
This year’s Mizzou Hall of Fame class has already gathered some impressive names, and now is adding even more local flavor.
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton was named to the class in a surprise announcement more than a week ago. In another surprise announcement, Lee’s Summit High alum Drew Lock and longtime special teams coach Andy Hill notified each other that they will also be in the HOF class. The football personnel join Ashley Fleming, Daniel Lewis and Nicki Webber as members of the 2026 class.
The two men read letters to each other in a video posted on social media.
“I still remember the night you announced to the world you were coming to be a Mizzou Tiger,” Hill read to Lock in the video. “We were getting a great quarterback, but you were also carrying on a legacy. Following in your dad’s footsteps said everything about who you were and what this place meant to you.”
Lock was a third-generation Mizzou Tiger, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. A three-time team captain, he threw for 12,193 passing yards and 99 touchdowns in his record-breaking career in Columbia. He set a single-season record with 44 touchdown passes in 2017, which led the nation and set a then-SEC record.
A 2019 second-round pick for the Denver Broncos, Lock was a one-year starter in three years with the team. He’s signed as a backup with the Seattle Seahawks and New York Giants since then, winning the past Super Bowl with the Seahawks.
Lock’s father, also named Andy, died last April at the age of 57, and was coached by Chiefs head coach Andy Reid at Mizzou.
“I watched you grow every day, as a competitor, as a leader, and eventually into one of the best quarterbacks this program has ever seen,” Hill read to Lock. “You won a lot of games and broke all kinds of records, but I’m most proud of the man you’ve become. The way you’ve carried yourself in the NFL, the way you built your life as a husband and a father, I know your dad would be incredibly proud of you, and I am too.”
Hill was a member of Missouri’s coaching staff for 24 seasons (1996 to 2018), the second-longest tenure of any assistant coach in program history.
He served in an array of capacities, including associate head coach, special teams coordinator, wide receivers coach and co-offensive coordinator. The Missouri Sports Hall of Famer also played at Missouri from 1980-84, and joined the Chiefs’ staff as an assistant special teams coach before retiring after the 2024 season.
“You’re the one who believed in me early, came to Lee’s Summit, gave me the opportunity to be a Tiger, just like my dad and grandpa before me,” Lock read to Hill. So much of what we accomplished at Mizzou during our four years has your fingerprints all over it, and I’m just one of a long list of Tigers who can say the same thing, especially from the Kansas City area.
“You’ve given so much to this program as a player, as a coach and as someone who truly cares about Mizzou. You’re the very definition of a true son.”
