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Dante Stills, DT, West Virginia
Selected: Round 6, Pick 36, Overall Pick 213 by Cardinals
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Name: Dante Stills
College: West Virginia
Number: 55
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 6-4 Weight: 286
Position: Pos2: DE
Class/Draft Year: rJr/2023
40 Low: 4.82 40 Time: 4.85 40 High: 4.90
> Projected Round: Stock: 
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Data Scout Notes: X-4-7/Should go Day3, as good as Brother was/But he went Undrafted...12GP-13TFL-6SK-6QBH in 21 2022: 1stC/HMC-DLoY...PBednarik/PLombardi/POutland/PNagurski...2021: 1stC/HMC-DLOYC...POutland/PNagurski/PBednarik...2020: HMC...POutland/PNagurski...2019: 2ndC
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Combine Invite: Yes
Height: 6034
Weight: 286
Zybek PD3X AKA "Official"
40 Yard Dash (ET): 4.85
40 Yard Dash (HH): 4.87
20 Yard (ET): 2.81
20 Yard (HH): 2.81
10 Yard (ET): 1.66
10 Yard (HH): 1.69
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225 Lb. Bench Reps: 20
Vertical Jump: 28 1/2
Broad Jump: 09'05"
20 Yrd Shuttle: 4.61
3-Cone Drill: 7.38
Projected 4.88
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Dates: 03/27/23
Hand: 09 5/8 Arm: 32 3/8
Wingspan: 78
Height: 6034
Weight: 286
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Dante Stills, West Virginia, Player News
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2022 ALL-BIG 12 FOOTBALL HONORABLE MENTION: Dante Stills (DLoY),...The 6-foot-4, 290-pounder established a career best with four assisted tackles and 17 sack yards in the season opener against Pitt and matched his career best with three TFLs in the Iowa State game. He forced fumbles in the Pitt and Oklahoma games and recovered a fumble in the season-ending victory at Oklahoma State. - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023  DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2022 ALL-BIG 12 FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM: DL Dante Stills, West Virginia, 5th,...Stills capped an impressive career in 2022 by leading West Virginia with 4½ sacks and nine tackles for losses from his defensive tackle spot, despite being double- and triple-te amed all year long. The senior set school records for career games played (59) and tackles for losses (52½), while his 23½ sacks were 2½ behind his father, Gary, for third place on the school's all-time sack list. - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2022 PRESEASON ROTARY LOMBARDI AWARD WATCHLIST: Dante Stills, West Virginia, S-Sr DL,...All-Big 12 First Team (AP, Coaches, Phil Steele) in 2021...Sits No. 3 in program history in career TFLs (43.5) and tied for No. 6 in sacks (19)...His 15 tackles for l oss in 2021 are tied for No. 10 in single-season team history...Played in 13 games and started 12 at defensive tackle...Finished with 36 tackles, including 29 solo stops, seven sacks, 15 tackles for loss, six quarterback hurries, one forced fumble and on e interception. - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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Dante Stills arrived at WVU in 2018 after a blue-chip career just down the road at Fairmont Senior High School. Since joining the Mountaineers, he's played in all 47 games, starting 26 of them. He's taking advantage of the COVID-prompted free-eligibility year in 2020 to play a fifth year of college football. He's already racked up 19 career sacks (tied for sixth in school history) and 44 tackles for lost yardage (third most), and he figures to add to those numbers in 2022 after earning first-team all-Bi g 12 honors last season.One thing neither Stills nor any of his Mountaineer teammates have ever done in their West Virginia careers, though, is line up against Pitt. That will change with the Sept. 1 renewal of the Backyard Brawl after a hiatus of more than a decade. "I've been waiting on this my whole life," said Stills of his opportunity to participate in the Pitt-WVU rivalry. "I remember two or three of them when I was growing up. "This isn't big just for us," he added. "This isn't just a team thing; it's a state thing. We as a whole state are looking forward to this game. Me and my guys are amped up. We're working hard during camp, so by game time we can go out and have fun." - Charleston Gazette-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2022 PRESEASON BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCHLIST: DT Dante Stills, West Virginia,...All-Big 12 First Team (AP, Coaches, Phil Steele) in 2021...Sits No. 3 in program history in career TFLs (43.5) and tied for No. 6 in sacks (19)...His 15 tackles for loss i n 2021 are tied for No. 10 in single-season team history...Played in 13 games and started 12 at defensive tackle...Finished with 36 tackles, including 29 solo stops, seven sacks, 15 tackles for loss, six quarterback hurries, one forced fumble and one int erception. - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: DT Dante Stills, West Virginia,...Finished with 36 tackles, including 29 solo stops, seven sacks, 15 tackles for loss, six quarterback hurries, one forced fumble and one interception in 2021...Recorded at least on e tackle for loss in 10 of 13 games...Finished at No. 4 in the Big 12 in tackles for loss (1.15)...Ranked No. 10 in the Big 12 in sacks (0.54). - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: Dante Stills, West Virginia, Senior DT,...Stills has played in 47 career games, including 26 starts...Team leader in career sacks (19) and tackles for loss (43.5)...Finished at No. 4 in the Big 12 in tackle s for loss (1.15) in 2021. - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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West Virginia has placed four players on the 2022 Preseason Football team as selected by the conference's media, with three of the four players being in-state products. Leading the way are linemen on each side of the ball who are expected to have All-Ame rican seasons, both from the same high school just 15 miles down the road from WVU. Center Zach Frazier, a junior, and defensive tackle Dante Stills, a fifth-year senior, both from Fairmont Senior, anchor the offensive and defensive lines, which are expe cted to be the strength of the team. Also named to the team is Casey Legg, the aptly-named placekicker from Cross Lanes Christian in Charleston, highlighting an amazing journey. Legg did not play football in high school. The final Mountaineer to earn all -conference honors is Charles Wood, a senior from Dallas who transferred to WVU last season from Illinois State. - Charleston Gazette-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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Poised for a 2022 standout season: Defensive tackle Dante Stills is looking to mirror a 2021 season in which he was named to the All-Big 12 first team with seven sacks and 15 tackles for loss. The 6-4, 280-pound senior's presence takes on added importanc e this season after the transfers of several key players, including nose guard Akheem Mesidor, cornerback Nicktroy Fortune and linebacker Josh Chandler-Semedo, the team's leading tackler. - AP College Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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Now entering his fifth season with West Virginia, defensive lineman and former Fairmont Senior standout Dante Stills knows he's the old man when it comes to the Mountaineer roster. And after 15 spring practices, even he admitted he was feeling as such. " It was practice nine or 10 you really start to feel it on your body," Stills said after Saturday's Gold-Blue Game. "Your hands, your fingers start to hurt - your feet, your knees … I feel old, but I'm not." Perhaps not in terms of his age, but from the perspective of playing experience, Stills is about as old as a college football player can be. A freshman All-American according to The Athletic and ESPN.com all the way back in 2018, Stills has been a constant contributor to the WVU defense in each of his four seasons.But after mulling over leaving to enter the NFL Draft, Stills saw enough holes in his game via film to realize that he needed to return. Some of what he saw boiled down solely to effort. Lack of consistency also stuck out to him. He reiterated that those were the targets when it came to his spring work. "What I wanted to work on was consistency running to the ball," Stills said. "There were plays last year where if I saw the ball across the field, for some reason I didn't try to go get him and show some effort. So, that was my main thing this year was to run to the ball, be around the ball. That was my thing." - Charleston Gazette-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2021 ALL-BIG 12 HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES): Dante Stills (DLoY),...Earning All-Big 12 honorable mention were Alonzo Addae (DB), Leddie Brown (RB), Josh Chandler-Semedo (LB), Bryce Ford-Wheaton (WR), James Gmiter (OL), Casey Legg (PK), Sean Mahone (DB), Akheem Mesidor (DL), Wyatt Milum (OL), Tyler Sumpter (P) and Winston Wright Jr. (KR/PR, WR). - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2021 ALL-BIG 12 FIRST TEAM (COACHES): DL Dante Stills, West Virginia, Sr.,...Defensive lineman Dante Stills earned a spot on the first-team defense. He started all 12 games and finished with 32 tackles, including 25 solo stops, a team-leading six sacks a nd team-leading 13 tackles for loss. He also had six quarterback hurries, forced a fumble and had an interception. During his career, Stills has registered 107 tackles, including 67 solo stops, 41½ tackles for loss, 18 sacks and four forced fumbles. He is third on WVU's career tackle for loss list and is No. 8 on the all-time sack list. - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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A pair of in-state defensive standouts received preseason accolades on Tuesday afternoon. West Virginia defensive tackle Dante Stills and Marshall defensive tackle Jamare Edwards were named to the Bronko Nagurski Award watch list, as released by the Foot ball Writers Association of America. Stills was also one of 80 preseason nominees named to the Outland Trophy watch list.The Nagurski Award is given annually by the Football Writers Association of America to the nation's top interior defensive lin eman. The preseason watch list features 90 players. The Outland Trophy winner is chosen from three finalists who are part of the annual FWAA All-America Team. Committee members select the winner, based on the three finalists. Stills is no stranger to pre season accolades, returning as one of the Big 12's top defenders for the 2021 season. In 2020, the Fairmont native finished with 35 tackles, including a team-best 10.5 tackles for loss. He added two sacks, two pass breakups, a fumble recovery and a block ed kick. - Charleston Gazette
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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West Virginia defensive lineman Dante Stills is forever fighting mistaken perceptions, not to mention identify. In 2021, even after being part of a squad that led the nation in pass defense a year prior, he still hears questions from some media members a bout the supposed defensive shortcomings of the Big 12. "I tell people that all the time," he said of the fact that teams in the Big 12 have good defenses, albeit ones that are often overshadowed by some spectacular offensive play. "There may be times wh en you see the offense put up 50 points, but the defense can still be really good. I think the defensive side of the ball has some dogs, but they're going up against tempo and fast pace. Every team has good offensive linemen for sure. The offenses are so explosive, that takes away from some of (the attention) the defenses should get. Our defense last year was top five in the country, but I don't think we got the notoriety we deserved. I feel like we should have been in the conversation more." - Charlest on Gazette-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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West Virginia senior defensive lineman Dante Stills was honored with a preseason All-Big 12 Conference spot on Wednesday as voted on by media. Stills was the only Mountaineer to make the 30-player squad. The 6-foot-4, 280-pound senior led West Virginia w ith 10.5 tackles for loss last season and also recorded 35 tackles and a pair of sacks. He was named an All-Big 12 honorable mention player in 2020. - Charleston Gazette-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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The Stills brothers are only one year apart age-wise. So, since Darius declared for the upcoming 2021 NFL draft, Dante wanted to join him. The Stills brothers are just that close. The problem was Darius' 2020 resume was much more impressive than Dante's. The 6-foot-1, 279-pound senior finished the season with 12 solo tackles and 13 assists for a total of 25 stops. Stills had 7.5 tackles for loss including 3.5 sacks totaling 22 yards in losses and actually intercepted a pass. That led to the elder Stills being voted Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and first-team All-American. That's why he is NFL-bound while younger brother Dante is still suited up in blue and gold."Throughout the season I wasn't performing at the level I thought I would," sa id the younger Stills, showing uncommon self-awareness. "People thought I did good, but my stats weren't showing it. Which that is kind of a big deal. I mean, stats are how much you are doing throughout the year." The handwriting was on the wall. Darius needed to step up while Dante needed to stay put. "I just feel I didn't do as much as I needed to do," said the younger Stills, "to be at that level that Darius was at. That's kind of just how I thought. I was like, it's best for me to stay another year. And work and work and work, so I'm able to be at that level next year." - Charleston Gazette-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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In a way, Dante Stills didn't think he'd be playing at West Virginia this year, his senior season. He envisioned himself as a player who might be able to join brother Darius in the NFL draft this season, but there are dreamers and there are realists and, it turned out, the West Virginia defensive tackle was more realist than dreamer. "My main goal coming into my junior year was I want to leave, I want to be a three-year guy," Dante Stills admitted. "But throughout the year I wasn't performing at the lev el I thought I should have been. I did good, but my stats weren't showing it. Stats show how much you are doing throughout the year and I didn't feel I did as much as I needed to do to be at the level Darius is at."I thought it was best for me to stay another year and work and work and work so I am able to be at that level next year." Stills had a decent year, but he wasn't the dominant player he wanted to be or that you have to be if you are to make a dent on draft day, so after playing with Dan te for three years at Fairmont Senior and three years at West Virginia - separated only the year Dante graduated and came to WVU - the two older sons of former Mountaineer star pass rusher Gary Stills will be apart. "He's here right now, but once he leav es it's going to be different," Dante Stills admitted. "I'm so used to living with him my whole life. I know he knows it's a business, a job. He knows I'm going to handle my business and I know he will, too." - Charleston Gazette-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2020 ALL-BIG 12 CONFERENCE FOOTBALL HONORABLE MENTION: Dante Stills (DL),...Earning All-Big 12 honorable mention were Chase Behrndt (OL), Zach Frazier (OL), Dreshun Miller (DB), Jeffery Pooler Jr. (DL), Tykee Smith (DB), Dante Stills (DL) and Brandon Yat es (OL). - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2020 OUTLAND TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: DT Dante Stills, West Virginia,...Dante Stills was named to Street & Smith's 2020 Preseason All-Big 12 First Team and Athlon Sports' and Phil Steele's second teams. The 2019 All-Big 12 Conference Second Team sele ction finished with 24 tackles, tied for a team-leading seven sacks with his brother, Darius, and was second on the team with 11.5 tackles for loss. He tied for No. 2 in the league in sacks and was No. 10 in tackles for loss. - West Virginia Football
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2020 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: DT Dante Stills, West Virginia,...The 2019 All-Big 12 Conference Second Team selection finished with 24 tackles, tied for a team-leading seven sacks with his brother, Darius, and was second on the team wi th 11.5 tackles for loss. He tied for No. 2 in the league in sacks and was No. 10 in tackles for loss. - West Virginia Football
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By getting planted firmly in the starting lineup, Stills, son of former WVU great Gary Stills, should have even more opportunities to make big plays on the WVU defensive line. The key for him is to make the most of those opportunities. He faded a little down the stretch, recording six sacks in his first eight games and earning just one sack in his last four. He'll need to improve on his consistency as a junior, but he still more than doubled his sack total between his freshman and sophomore seasons. He' ll also be called upon to assume a veteran's role. Until now, that job was Donahue's. If the depth chart shapes up as some anticipate and freshman Jalen Thornton becomes the No. 2 defensive tackle, it will be Stills helping build up the next generation a t that position.As good as Stills and the rest of the defensive linemen have been, they can still help WVU defense as a whole become better. West Virginia finished a pedestrian 69th in the Football Bowl Subdivision in allowing 159.4 rushing yards per game. It was 72nd in opponents' third-down conversions, allowing first downs 39.9 percent of the time. Stills will get his chances to help improve those numbers. If WVU does improve, the spotlight on Stills will only shine brighter. - Charleston Gaze tte-Mail
(DS#18 DT) rJr/2023 DT Dante Stills, West Virginia
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2019 ALL-BIG 12 FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM (COACHES): DL Dante Stills, West Virginia,...The Stills brothers, Darius and Dante, were probably the most disruptive brother tandem this conference has seen since the Selmon brothers terrorized Big 8 teams in the mid -1970s at Oklahoma. Dante, a sophomore, was equally impactful this season with seven sacks, 11 1/2 tackles for losses and 24 tackles in 12 games. The Mountaineers finished second in the Big 12 and 27th nationally with 33 sacks. Darius and Dante will be t he cornerstones of West Virginia's 2020 defense, and both should garner All-America consideration next summer. - West Virginia Football
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