| Notre Dame Fighting Irish–No. 99 | |
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| Position | Defensive tackle |
| Class |  |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | August 20, 2001 Lake Bluff, Illinois, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Weight | 295 lb (134 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| Bowl games | |
| High school | Lake Forest (Lake Forest, Illinois) |
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Rylie Mills (born August 20, 2001) is an American football defensive tackle for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Mills attended Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, Illinois where he also competed in the shot put and discus. [1] He committed to the University of Notre Dame to play college football and enrolled early beginning in the spring semester of 2020. [2]
As a true freshman at Notre Dame in 2020, Mills played in 9 games and made his first start in the 2021 Rose Bowl against Alabama. He played in all 13 games in 2022 and recorded 24 total tackles throughout the season. [1] [3] [4] [5]
| Year | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Total | Solo | Ast | Sack | PD | Int | Yds | TD | FF | FR | TD | |||
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish | |||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | 13 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | 13 | 9 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2023 | 13 | 13 | 47 | 22 | 25 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Career | 51 | 26 | 101 | 43 | 58 | 9.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
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