2024 Football Roster

Mason Hart, ESU Athletics
Wade Smith, ESU Athletics
Wade Smith, ESU Athletics
Josiah Driggers, ESU Athletics
Josiah Driggers, ESU Athletics

54 Rylan Miller

  • Position Defensive End
  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 272
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Overland Park,KS
  • Highschool Shawnee Mission North HS

Biography

Awards/Honors
2023
  • Third Team All-MIAA Defensive Line
  • MIAA Academic Honor Roll
2022
  • Honorable Mention All-MIAA Defensive Line
  • MIAA Academic Honor Roll
2021
  • ESU AD Honor Roll
2020
  • MIAA Academic Honor Roll
Notes on Miller
  • In his fifth year at Emporia State
  • Named 2024 Team Captain
  • Tallied 78 tackles and six sacks in 31 career games played
RS-Junior Season (2023)
Played in all 12 games and totaled 40 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, three sacks, two pass breakups and a fumble recovery … Opened the season with three tackles, including a tackle for loss against Lincoln (8/31) … Had two tackles and two quarterback hurries against Northeastern State (9/16) … Recorded three tackles against Missouri Western (9/30) … Tallied career-high ten tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks against Washburn (10/14) … Had four tackles and a pass breakup against Central Missouri (10/21) … Recorded five tackles and had 2.5 tackles for loss against Nebraska-Kearney (10/28) … Had seven tackles and half a sack against Fort Hays State (11/11) ... Ranked third in the MIAA in tackles for loss and 15th in sacks.
 
RS-Sophomore Season (2022)
Played in all 12 games and recorded 30 tackles, four tackles for loss, two sacks and a pass breakup … Had two tackles in the season opener against Northeastern State (9/1) … Recorded three tackles and a sack against Missouri Western (9/17) … Tallied three tackles against Pittsburg State (9/24) … Had two tackles and a pass breakup against Washburn (10/1) … Recorded five tackles and had two quarterback hurries against Nebraska-Kearney (10/15) … Had season-high six tackles and a sack against Missouri Southern (10/22).
 
RS-Freshman Season
Played in seven games in his first season with the Hornets and totaled seven tackles with one sack and one pass breakup … Opened the season with two tackles and his first career sack against Northeastern State (9/4) … Had two tackles against Missouri Western (9/18) … Recorded two tackles against Missouri Southern (10/23).
 
Freshman Season (2020)
COVID season … Redshirted.

Statistics

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2020Freshman

    Defensive End
    6'4" 250 lbs
  • 54

    2021Redshirt Freshman

    Defensive End
    6'4" 247 lbs
    54
  • 54

    2022Redshirt Sophomore

    Defensive End
    6'4" 253 lbs
    54
  • 54

    2023Redshirt Junior

    Defensive End
    6'4" 259 lbs
    54
  • 54

    2024Redshirt Senior

    Defensive End
    6'4" 272 lbs
    54