The countdown to the 2018 college football season is on. Four FCS teams are in action Aug. 25 as Duquesne takes on UMass, Prairie View faces Rice and North Carolina A&T and Jacksonville State square off in ESPN’s FCS Kickoff.
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HERO Sports is going to count down each day by highlighting the best player in FCS football who wears the jersey number of the number of days to kickoff. You can find the running list of top players here.
*Note: Jersey numbers are from the 2017 season.
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47: Nick Miller, senior linebacker — Penn
Talk about a guy who is all over the field. Miller led the Ivy League with 104 tackles last season, which was the most by a Penn player sine 1997. An impressive 66 of them were solo. Keep in mind the Quakers played only 10 games, so Miller's 6.6 solo tackles per game ranked fifth in the FCS.
He was unquestionably named to the All-Conference First Team along with being a Top 3 finalist for the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Award, which ended up going to Yale linebacker Matthew Oplinger.
Miller also has a 2016 All-Conference Second Team honor after racking up 68 total tackles. Last year, he added 4.5 tackles for loss, three sacks, three forced fumbles and two interceptions.
Miller is named on our 2018 Preseason All-American Third Team.
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