Dedrick Mills is in the running for more than just the Canadian Football League’s rushing title.

The Calgary Stampeders running back is also up for the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player — that after being nominated for the award by the local chapter of the Football Reporters of Canada and the team’s coaching staff.

It’s the right choice given Mills’ game-in, game-out consistency and the production he’s had in helping the Stampeders to a turnaround season — a 10-7 one that has them in the chase for second place in the West Division with Friday’s final game of the regular schedule on tap against the host Edmonton Elks (7:30 p.m., TSN, CHQR 770 AM/107.3 FM the Edge).

“I wasn’t expecting all this,” the 28-year-old native of Waycross, Ga., told reporters. “I just came out here to play, man. H

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