Calgary Stampeders running back Dedrick Mills has 1,225 yards so far this season, with two games remaining.
Dedrick Mills’s life on the football field reflects his life off it.
The Calgary Stampeders running back is poised to claim the CFL’s rushing title this season.
His 1,225 rushing yards with two games remaining in the regular season are already the most by a Stampeder since Jon Cornish (1,813) in 2013.
Mills was in a dark place in 2024. A friend and his cousin were killed in a car crash that spring in his home state of Georgia.
Mills abruptly left the Stampeders mid-season for almost three weeks for what head coach and general manager Dave Dickenson later called a suspension.
The 28-year-old Mills says his career output this season is because of “me just changing things in my li