Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Kansas
Dean Miller
DE • 6'5" • 240 lbs • Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Dean Miller shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
48
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
33
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
70
High-upside career profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kansas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Kansas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Houston
Player Story
Dean Miller built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Los Angeles, CA wearing No. 5, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Dean Miller's career was his defensive production: 63...
Read the storyDean Miller, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kansas. Dean Miller shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 63
- TFL
- 13.5
- Sacks
- 6
- QB hurries
- 8
- Passes defended
- 3
Quick Answers
Dean Miller quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kansas · DE
- Career Tackles
- 63
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 25 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Kansas
- Top game
- Houston
- Latest roster
- No. 5 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 29 tackles · DE 66th (top 24%) · Big 12 161st (top 22%) · National 1,437th (top 24%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Kansas | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kansas | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 12 | 32 | 9.5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 71.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kansas | 11 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 4 | - | 0 | 30.1 |
Related Context
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Dean Miller played DE for Kansas. Across 4 tracked seasons, Dean Miller recorded 63 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Kansas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Kansas paired 21.5 primary output with 29 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 19.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: West Virginia
Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Kansas
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
19.2
Usage
5.7
Consistency
12.1
Best Game by takeover score
West Virginia
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Wagner: 0. Missouri: 0. West Virginia: 3.5. Cincinnati: 0. UCF: 0. Texas Tech: 0. Kansas State: 2. Oklahoma State: 1. Arizona: 2. Iowa State: 0.5. Utah: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Wagner: 1 by 4.2. Missouri: 5 by 20.8. West Virginia: 7 by 64.2. Cincinnati: 4 by 16.7. UCF: 2 by 8.3. Texas Tech: 1 by 4.2. Kansas State: 2 by 28.3. Oklahoma State: 3 by 22.5. Arizona: 1 by 24.2. Iowa State: 2 by 13.3. Utah: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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Wins1.1 · Games = 4 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 7 · -0.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
West Virginia
Best efficiency game
64.2 vs West Virginia
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/28 | vs Utah | L 21-31 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | @ Iowa State | L 14-38 | 2 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ ArizonaSplash game | L 20-24 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | vs Oklahoma State | W 38-21 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Kansas StateSplash game | L 17-42 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Texas Tech | L 17-42 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ UCF | W 27-20 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs Cincinnati | L 34-37 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs West VirginiaSplash game | W 41-10 | 7 | 3 | — | 1.50 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Missouri | L 31-42 | 5 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 8/29 | vs Wagner | W 46-7 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Dean Miller story
Dean Miller built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Los Angeles, CA wearing No. 5, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Dean Miller's career was his defensive production: 63 tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss, 6 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 25 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Kansas. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Dean Miller's production has multiple signals. With 25 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kansas.
The arc is straightforward: Dean Miller 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
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Kansas
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Kansas | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kansas | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 21.5 | 29 | 11.7 | 21.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kansas | 9 | 19.2 | 5.7 | -12.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Houston
Week 8 · W 42-14 · Conference game
Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
5
Havoc Plays
88.6 takeover
5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.6 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 93 West Virginia
Week 4 · W 41-10 · Conference game
3.5
Havoc Plays
88.1 takeover
Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.1 takeover score.
#3
vs Lindenwood
Week 1 · W 48-3
3
Havoc Plays
68.9 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 68.9 takeover score.
#4
vs Colorado
Week 13 · W 37-21 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
67.5 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 67.5 takeover score.
#5
vs Iowa State
Week 11 · W 45-36 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
64.7 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 64.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Kansas
21.5 primary output · 29 efficiency · 11.7 usage
71.1
#2
2023 Regular Season · Kansas
37.1
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Kansas
30.1
9 primary · 19.2 efficiency · 5.7 usage
Milestones
6
Impact games
10
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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