Dedrick Mills

With Maurice Washington a question mark throughout 2019 and eventually being released, there was an opening in the backfield for Mills to take on the primary duties. Mills wasn’t a complete stranger to handling the rock triple-digit times at the collegiate level. He spent the first years of his career at Georgia Tech, where he amassed 152 totes for 771 yards and 12 touchdowns as a freshman back in 2016. He finally received another chance to handle the starting job with Nebraska last fall and didn’t disappoint, racking up 745 yards and 10 touchdowns on 143 carries, trailing only quarterback Adrian Martinez in rush count (by one). With Wan’Dale Robinson’s services likely required at wide receiver in 2020, look for Mills to get a sizable workload in the backfield. Over the last three games of 2019, he averaged 115.7 yards and 17.7 carries while racking up two rushing scores to go with six grabs for 53 additional yards.