2021 Football Roster
Samdup Miller
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 270
- Position:
- DL
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Houston, Texas
- High School:
- Stratford
2021: Phil Steele Preseason All-Big Ten (Third Team) ... Recorded a half-sack in the season-opener against Michigan State (9/3) ... Tallied 11 tackles against Duke (9/18) ... Notched a tackle for loss against Nebraska (10/2) ... Recorded a sack to help defeat Rutgers (10/16).
2019: Played and started in eight games before missing the final four of the season ... Enters the 2019 offseason with 35 career starts, most of any defensive line returnee ... Finished his junior season with 29 tackles and 0.5 sack ... Tallied at least two stops in all eight games he appeared in during 2019, including a season-high six at Wisconsin (9/28) ... Half-sack came vs. UNLV (9/14) ... Tallied five stops vs. Ohio State (10/18) ... Made one solo and three assisted tackles vs. Iowa (10/26).
2018: Started all 14 games at defensive end … Posted a single-season career high 53 total tackles and ranked fourth on the team with 6.5 tackles for loss … Finished with a career-high 14 tackles against Nebraska (10/13), the most for an NU defensive lineman since 2002 ... Also had a career-high six solo and eight unassisted tackles against the Cornhuskers (10/13) … Recorded five total tackles, including a career-high 2.0 tackles for loss, against Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship (12/1) … Academic All-Big Ten.
2017: One of 13 true first year players to see action during the regular season ... Started all 13 games at defensive end ... Named to Freshman All-American teams by ESPN and USA Today ... Named to the Big Ten All-Freshmen Team by Big Ten Network ... Big Ten Honorable Mention by coaches and media ... Led all Power 5 rookies with 8.5 tackles for loss ... Led all Big Ten rookies with 5.5 sacks ... Second on the team in sacks ... Had at least two tackles in each of his first nine games and 10 times overall ... Recorded a tackle in the backfield in nine games, including six straight from Sept. 16 to Oct. 21 ... Had a season-high five tackles at Nebraska, including a sack for a loss of 10 yards ... Recorded a sack in three-straight games versus No. 10 Wisconsin, No. 4 Penn State and Maryland ... Became the first Wildcat rookie to record a sack in three-straight games since Ifeadi Odenigbo in 2013 ... Recovered his first career fumble and scored the Wildcats' first defensive touchdown since 2015 in the regular-season finale.
High School: Early enrollee joined the Wildcats for the winter quarter of 2017 ... Verbally committed to Northwestern on January 24, 2016 ... Ranked as a four-star prospect by Scout ... Rated a Top-20 defensive tackle in the nation, the No. 2 DT in the state of Texas, and the No. 2 DT in the Midland Region, by Scout ... Team captain helped guide the Spartans to district titles in 2014 and 2015 ... Registered 226 tackles and 20 sacks during his high school career ... Unanimous selection to First Team All-District ... 2016 Team MVP … Played one season of high school basketball ... Brother, Alex, is also on the Wildcats' defensive line ... Father, Greg, was an All-Conference defensive lineman at the University of Nevada ... National Honor Society ... Student Council ... Major is communication studies.
