West Virginia defensive tackle Dante Stills goes to Cardinals in 6th round
During his record-setting career at West Virginia, defensive tackle Dante Stills evolved from a freshman All-American in 2018 to a four-time All-Big 12 selection. He was second-team all-conference in 2019 and 2020, rising to first team in 2021 and 2022.
All those months in the weight room, at practice and Saturday game days at Mountaineer Field paid off when he was drafted in the sixth round by the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday.
Stills (6-foot-4, 285 pounds) played in a school-record 58 games, with 36 starts. His 52 1/2 tackles for a loss — almost one per game over the course of his career — are tops in WVU football history, and his 23 1/2 sacks are fourth.
He might have carved a path toward an NFL paycheck when he ran a 4.85-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine.
Jerry DiPaola is a TribLive reporter covering Pitt athletics since 2011. A Pittsburgh native, he joined the Trib in 1993, first as a copy editor and page designer in the sports department and later as the Pittsburgh Steelers reporter from 1994-2004. He can be reached at jdipaola@triblive.com.
Remove the ads from your TribLIVE reading experience but still support the journalists who create the content with TribLIVE Ad-Free.