Eli Gillman

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Eli Gillman
No. 10 – Montana Grizzlies
Position Running back
Class Redshirt.svg Junior
Personal information
Born Dassel, Minnesota, U.S.
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight208 lb (94 kg)
Career information
High schoolDassel-Cokato (Cokato)
College
Awards and highlights
  • Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year (2025)
  • Jerry Rice Award (2023)
  • Big Sky Freshman of the Year (2023)
  • First-team All-Big Sky (2025)
  • 2× Second-team All-Big Sky (2023), (2024)
Stats at ESPN

Eli Gillman is an American college football running back for the Montana Grizzlies. He won the 2023 Jerry Rice Award.

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High school career

Gillman attended Dassel-Cokato Senior High in Cokato, Minnesota. As a senior, Gillman had 43 touchdowns and ran for more than 1,900 yards. He helped lead Dassel Cokato High to its first state championship. [1]

He committed to play college football at the University of Montana. He had offers from Central Michigan, Northern Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Georgetown, and Dartmouth. [2]

College career

He had the most rushing yards by a freshman in the University of Montana's history and won the Jerry Rice Award. [3] He also had the longest touchdown run in the program's history. [4]

His sophomore year he racked up 175 yards and a touchdown in a win over Western Carolina. [5] For the season he had more than a thousand yards rushing and 15 rushing touchdowns. [6]

In September 2025 he had 198 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns from 15 carries against Central Michigan. [7] In October 2025 he rushed for 123 yards and teo touchdowns against Cal Poly. [8]

Statistics

YearTeamGamesRushingReceiving
GPGSAttYdsAvgTDRecYdsAvgTD
2022 Montana 208658.11155.00
2023 Montana 15141949685.012191407.40
2024 Montana 1491671,1046.615181769.82
2025 Montana 12121921,2616.617261656.32
Career [9] 43355613,3986.145644867.64

References

  1. ↑ "Eli Gillman - Football". University of Montana Athletics.
  2. ↑ "2024 Football Roster - Eli Gillman". gogriz.com. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Montana running back Eli Gillman wins Jerry Rice Award". MontanaSports.com (MTSPX). December 6, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Montana Grizzlies running back Eli Gillman puts together a freshman season for the ages". 30 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Montana running back Eli Gillman takes Big Sky Conference offensive player of the week honors". MontanaSports.com (MTSPX). September 23, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Eli Gillman - Montana Grizzlies Running Back". ESPN.
  7. ↑ https://www.montanasports.com/college/montana-grizzlies/eli-gillman-runs-wild-as-no-6-montana-pulls-away-from-central-washington
  8. ↑ https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401767079
  9. ↑ "Eli Gillman Career Stats - NCAAF". ESPN . Retrieved December 2, 2024.


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