Nigel Mills brings ball-hawking juice to Tarleton State’s secondary
In the 2025 season, Nigel Mills arrived at Tarleton State as a junior DB with a proven knack for disruption: at Golden West, he played 17 games and logged 4 interceptions, 4 forced fumbles, 3 pass breakups, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 45 total tackles, including a 2025 line of 3 forced fumbles and a tied-third-best 3 interceptions in 10 games. He looks like the kind of defender who changes drives, not just covers them—physical, opportunistic, and apparently a little chaos-friendly, which is exactly what a coaching staff wants in the secondary. Tarleton also lists him as a psychology major, a small but charming hint that there’s some brains behind the boom.
