Darius Stills Wins Mountaineer Maven's Grant Wiley Defensive PoY Award

The Fairmont native is recognized as West Virginia's best defensive player.

At the conclusion of each football season, the staff at Mountaineer Maven recognizes the best players on West Virginia's roster by handing out 11 different awards. The winners of the 5th Annual Mountaineer Maven Awards will be announced throughout the week.

This 5th winner of the Mountaineer Maven Grant Wiley Defensive Player of the Year Award goes to senior defensive lineman Darius Stills. It is the second consecutive year in which Stills has won the award.

After a breakout season a year ago, Darius Stills further solidified himself as one of the nation's best defensive lineman in the country and helped lead the West Virginia defense to be the 4th best unit in the nation. He totaled 25 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, and 3.5 sacks and became the first Consensus All-American at West Virginia since Dan Mozes in 2006.

He is projected to be a day two pick in the 2021 NFL Draft which is set to take place from April 29th-May 1st.

2020 Finalists

Darius Stills

Tony Fields II

Tykee Smith

Past winners

2016: CB Rasul Douglas

2017: S Kyzir White

2018: LB David Long Jr./Kenny Robinson

2019: DL Darius Stills

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