Andrew East net worth, career, wife, and other facts about the famous American football long snapper

 

You wouldn’t blame devotees of an Andrew East for being too inquisitive especially as regards information him. Details such as Andrew East net worth, hobbies among other details about the figure are what fans want answers to.

Andrew East is top American Footballer and he is one of the most famous given his exceptional qualities on the pitch and the number of teams he has played for since the start of his career in high school. These, among other factors, are why this question is asked; What is Andrew East net worth?

We shall, in the next few paragraphs share with the details about the American Footballer with regards to his background, age, education, career, relationship status as well as an answer Andrew East net worth.

Andrew East
Andrew East background and education

Andrew East (birth name – Andrew Dean East) is an American football long snapper who was part of many NFL teams, including the Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, and Seattle Seahawks. He was born on the type 17th of September 1991 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Guy and Marsha East. He has three brothers named Guy, James, and Grant and one sister called Christine.

Andrew East attended the North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. During high school, he was named Captain of the football team. Andrew East did remarkably well during his early days while playing as a junior. He played as a three-year starter on defence and special teams for the 5A division school in the Indianapolis area. East contributed 64 tackles and seven Quarterback sacks as the first-year starter. He started at the linebacker position posting 110 tackles as a youngster.

He proceeded to Owen Graduate School of Management but later joined Vanderbilt University where he played his college football.

Andrew East career

Andrew East’s journey to fame started at a very young age while playing for his high school as we mentioned above. After leaving college, he signed for Kansas City Chiefs. However, he was released on August 31, 2015, from the team. Later in 2016, Andrew signed a future free-agent contract with the Seattle Seahawks but his stay at the club didn’t last long as he was waived by the Seattle Seahawk on the 24th of March, 2016.

Andrew East net worth

Los Angeles Rams signed Andrew East on the 13th of March, 2017. After several months he was waived by the team two months later. He joined Oakland Raiders on the 28th of July, 2017 but was released on the 2nd of September the same year. He also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Memphis Express between June 2018 and November 2018.

Andrew East was signed by the Washington Redskins on the 15th of December, 2018 after long snapper Nick Sundberg was placed on injured reserve due to a back injury.[16] He was waived on August 2, 2019. He’s currently a free agent. Andrew East is such a “journeyman.”

Andrew East net worth

Andrew East net worth didn’t diminish despite being a “Journeyman.” Andrew East net worth Andrew East is estimated to be nearly $6 million. He reaped most of his fortune by being signed for various NFL teams for various divisions and also by playing as a free agent for various clubs at their different teams as well.

Andrew East relationship

Andrew East is married to the former US Olympic Gold medalist Gymnast, Shawn Johnson. She represented the United States at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She won the 2008 U.S. Visa Championships on the 7th of June, 2008.

Andrew East

He proposed to her at Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game and were married on April 16, 2016, in Franklin, Tennessee. The couple also has a daughter named Drew Hazel East, who was born on October 29, 2019, after an initial miscarriage two years earlier.

Andrew East runs a successful YouTube channel with over a million subscribers. The Youtube channels are centred on the daily activities of his wife as well contents around her collaborations with other Olympians like Nastia Liukin and Nile Wilson and some more YouTube celebrities.

The name of the channel is The East Family and his Wife.

What Andrew East did to keep in touch with Shawn Johnson

“@ShawnJohnson I heard you met my brother Guy! Hopefully you can come to Vandy and the Easts could show you what it’s all about.” 

This was the first tweet Andrew East sent from his specially opened Twitter account in 2012, according to a YouTube video concerning how he and Shawn Johnson met. Taking the cue, Johnson responded. It turns out, she had probably been waiting for a move from East.

Shawn Johnson was already an Olympic gold medalist when their romance began. She was at the 2012 games in London, applauding her cyclist friend Taylor Phinney, when Johnson met East’s brother Guy East Jr. Guy was a teammate of Phinney’s and a chance meeting with Johnson had him persuaded that she had to meet his brother. 

As she told HuffPost, Johnson said that she was “looking to go to Stanford University and [Guy] convinced me to check out Vanderbilt.” He took Johnson’s number for his brother and set the two up.

Soon after, Johnson invited East to Los Angeles, where she was contesting in “Dancing With the Stars” at the time. East was then a college junior studying civil engineering, he said in the YouTube video. Upon Johnson’s invitation, he literally got up and left in the middle of a class to fly to her. And the rest, as they say, is history!

How Andrew East proposed to his wife

Who doesn’t dream about the perfect proposal? Well, Shawn Johnson got hers when Andrew East got down on one knee on July 24, 2015, before a huge crowd at a stadium in Chicago. Johnson, who was 23 at the time, was at Wrigley Field to throw the ceremonial first pitch for a Cubs game. Just as Johnson walked off the mound, she got the “greatest surprise a girl could ever ask for,” as she shared in an Instagram post.

Shawn Johnson and Andrew East

Andrew East had previously planned to propose that December, timing the event in sync with his first season of NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs, as shared in a YouTube video. Nonetheless, an uncle persuaded him to do it sooner since East already had the ring available. In fact, he told him to do it at the Cubs game the very next day!  

Shawn Johnson and Andrew East

And so, surrounded by cheers from the stadium, East made his romantic proposal to Johnson, telling her, “It would be such an honour to be able to serve you and the Lord together for the rest of your life.” Of course, she definitely said yes! The two had been dating for two years until their engagement. They got married in a rather rustic, intimate ceremony on a farm in Tennessee in April 2016. 

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