Usage / Role
53%
Regular offensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2014-2020Nebraska
Dedrick Mills
RB • 5'11" • 220 lbs • Waycross, GA, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Dedrick Mills leans balanced backfield option traits and 44.1 efficiency.
Impact Production
71
High-end production for a back
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Reliability
66
Reliable weekly contributor
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Star Power
73
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Georgia Tech
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Georgia Tech • Nebraska
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Wisconsin
Player Story
Dedrick Mills built his college career from 2014 through 2020 as a running back from Waycross, GA wearing No. 26, spending time with Georgia Tech and Nebraska. The clearest part of Dedrick Mills' career was his...
Read the storyDedrick Mills, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Georgia Tech. Dedrick Mills leans balanced backfield option traits and 44.1 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 2,132
- Rushing yards
- 1,912
- Receiving yards
- 220
- Touchdowns
- 26
Quick Answers
Dedrick Mills quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Nebraska · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 2,132
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 27 games
- Best season
- 2016 Postseason · Georgia Tech
- Top game
- Wisconsin
- Latest roster
- No. 26 · Senior
- 2020 Scrimmage yards rank
- 480 scrimmage yards · RB 139th (top 24%) · Big Ten 24th (top 11%) · National 282nd (top 13%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2015 Regular Season | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2016 Postseason | Georgia Tech | 9 | 169 | 169 | 0 | 1 | 74.2 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Georgia Tech | 9 | 615 | 602 | 13 | 12 | 74.2 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Nebraska | 12 | 868 | 745 | 123 | 10 | 65.3 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Nebraska | 6 | 480 | 396 | 84 | 3 | 52.3 |
Related Context
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Dedrick Mills played RB for Georgia Tech and Nebraska. Across 5 tracked seasons, Dedrick Mills recorded 1,912 rushing yards, 220 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Nebraska.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2016 Postseason
Georgia Tech paired 784 primary output with 51.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2019 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 50.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2020 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Georgia Tech, Nebraska.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Wisconsin
Loss with 188 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2019 Regular Season · Nebraska
Games
12
Scrimmage Yards / G
72.3
Efficiency
50.2
Usage
21.8
Consistency
48.7
Best Game by takeover score
Wisconsin
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. South Alabama: 47. Colorado: 45. Northern Illinois: 116. Illinois: 54. Ohio State: 77. Northwestern: 26. Minnesota: 41. Indiana: 30. Purdue: 32. Wisconsin: 188. Maryland: 84. Iowa: 128
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. South Alabama: 16 by 30.6. Colorado: 10 by 37.5. Northern Illinois: 11 by 93.9. Illinois: 13 by 40.7. Ohio State: 12 by 64.8. Northwestern: 10 by 27.1. Minnesota: 10 by 36.5. Indiana: 8 by 39.1. Purdue: 9 by 33.6. Wisconsin: 17 by 96.1. Maryland: 14 by 58.9. Iowa: 28 by 43.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins65.4 · Games = 5 · -11.9 vs Losses
Losses77.3 · Games = 7 · +11.9 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
12 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Wisconsin
Best efficiency game
96.1 vs Wisconsin
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/29 | vs Iowa | L 24-27 | 24 | 94 | 3.90 | 0 | 4 | 34 | 4.6 |
| Sat 11/23 | @ Maryland | W 54-7 | 12 | 65 | 5.40 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 6 |
| Sat 11/16 | vs Wisconsin100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yards | L 21-37 | 17 | 188 | 11.10 | 1 | — | — | 11.1 |
| Sat 11/2 | @ Purdue | L 27-31 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 3.6 |
| Sat 10/26 | vs Indiana | L 31-38 | 8 | 30 | 3.80 | 0 | — | — | 3.8 |
| Sat 10/12 | @ Minnesota | L 7-34 | 9 | 28 | 3.10 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4.1 |
| Sat 10/5 | vs Northwestern | W 13-10 | 10 | 26 | 2.60 | 0 | — | — | 2.6 |
| Sat 9/28 | vs Ohio State | L 7-48 | 11 | 67 | 6.10 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6.4 |
| Sun 9/22 | @ Illinois2+ TD | W 42-38 | 12 | 45 | 3.80 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4.2 |
| Sun 9/15 | vs Northern Illinois100 rush yards | W 44-8 | 11 | 116 | 10.50 | 1 | — | — | 10.5 |
| Sat 9/7 | @ Colorado | L 31-34 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 4.5 |
| Sat 8/31 | vs South Alabama2+ TD | W 35-21 | 15 | 44 | 2.90 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2.9 |
Player Story
Dedrick Mills story
Dedrick Mills built his college career from 2014 through 2020 as a running back from Waycross, GA wearing No. 26, spending time with Georgia Tech and Nebraska. The clearest part of Dedrick Mills' career was his backfield work: 1,912 rushing yards, 379 carries, 25 rushing touchdowns, and 220 receiving yards across 27 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2019 with Nebraska. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 220 receiving yards and 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 27 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Georgia Tech and Nebraska.
The arc is straightforward: Dedrick Mills moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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Georgia Tech
2014-2016
Opening stop
- 2
Nebraska
2019-2020
Final stop
Season Value Progression
201420152016201620192020
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Georgia Tech | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2015 Regular Season | Georgia Tech | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Postseason | Georgia Tech | 784 | 51.4 | 31.6 | 784 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Georgia Tech | 784 | 51.4 | 31.6 | 0 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Nebraska | 868 | 50.2 | 21.8 | 84 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Nebraska | 480 | 44.1 | 25.2 | -388 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Wisconsin
Week 12 · L 21-37 · Conference game
Loss with 188 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
188
Scrimmage Yards
97.7 takeover
188 scrimmage yards and 34 usage.
#2
@ Rutgers
Week 16 · W 28-21 · Conference game
236
Scrimmage Yards
93.2 takeover
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
236 scrimmage yards and 37.8 usage.
#3
@ Kentucky
Week 1 · W 33-18 · Postseason
169
Scrimmage Yards
85.6 takeover
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
169 scrimmage yards and 54.4 usage.
#4
@ North Carolina
Week 10 · L 20-48 · Conference game
132
Scrimmage Yards
78.9 takeover
Loss with 132 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
132 scrimmage yards and 30.2 usage.
#5
vs Northern Illinois
Week 3 · W 44-8
116
Scrimmage Yards
72.1 takeover
Win with 116 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
116 scrimmage yards and 21.2 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2016 Postseason · Georgia Tech
784 primary output · 51.4 efficiency · 31.6 usage
74.2
#2
2016 Regular Season · Georgia Tech
74.2
784 primary · 51.4 efficiency · 31.6 usage
#3
2019 Regular Season · Nebraska
65.3
868 primary · 50.2 efficiency · 21.8 usage
Milestones
5
100+ rush yards
3
150+ scrimmage yards
5
2+ TD games
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