Dax Milne

#5 · WR · Jr. · BYU6′0″ · 190 lb · South Jordan, UT · Bingham

Dax Milne: WR · BYU · #5.

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Dax Milne

WR · BYU · Jr · #5

Beats you over the top. Arrived as a two-star recruit; three seasons of production at BYU since. On tape: 184 receiving yards and 9 receptions against Houston, Week 7, 2020.

Style of play

Play style

Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

BYU in the news

BYU athletic director leaving in Jan ‘27Oct 31
Big 12 addresses UCF fan chants at BYUFox News Oct 29
Big 12 penalizes discriminatory chantsKUTV Oct 29
BYU releases depth chart for Arizona State gameSports Ksl Oct 27

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2020	BYU	70	1,189	17.0	8	78
2019	BYU	21	285	13.6	2	36
2018	BYU	11	75	6.8	1	9
Career		102	1,549	15.2	11	78

Season	Team
2020	BYU	11	67	--	3
2019	BYU	4	16	32	57
2018	BYU	9	23	--	--
Career		24	106	32	60

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2020 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 55-3@ Navy	3	35	11.7	0	17
Wk 4	W 48-7vs Troy	7	140	20.0	1	70	140-yard receiving day
Wk 5	W 45-14vs Louisiana Tech	7	89	12.7	0	39
Wk 6	W 27-20vs UTSA	7	102	14.6	0	35
Wk 7	W 43-26@ Houston	9	184	20.4	3	78	Season-high 184 yds
Wk 8	W 52-14vs Texas State	4	89	22.3	1	45
Wk 9	W 41-10vs Western Kentucky	5	67	13.4	1	23
Wk 10	W 51-17@ No. 21 Boise State	3	99	33.0	0	39
Wk 12	W 66-14vs North Alabama	4	101	25.3	0	58
Wk 14	L 17-22@ No. 14 Coastal Carolina	6	106	17.7	1	41
Wk 15	W 28-14vs San Diego State	8	107	13.4	1	34
Total		63	1119	17.8	8	78

Signature game

Week 7 · 2020

W 43-26

at Houston

9 rec · 184 yds · 3 TD

With Z. Wilson — 400 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · 40 rush yds (9 car) · R. Rehkow — 45.8 yards per punt · 5 punts · 3 inside the 20

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 4 · Troy · 2nd and 5 · Q3 · EPA +5.98Zach. Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 70 yds for a TD, (Jake Oldroyd KICK)
Week 15 · San Diego State · 3rd and 9 · Q4 · EPA +3.95Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 34 yds to the SDSt 37 for a
Week 10 · Boise State · 3rd and 5 · Q3 · EPA +3.70Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 38 yds to the BoiSt 43 for a
Week 12 · North Alabama · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +3.50Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 58 yds to the NorAl 17 for a
Week 8 · Texas State · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +3.48Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 45 yds for a TD (Jake Oldroyd KICK)
Week 14 · Coastal Carolina · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +3.24Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 41 yds for a TD, (Jake Oldroyd KICK)

4 more plays

Week 10 · Boise State · 1st and 10 · Q3 · EPA +2.95Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 39 yds to the BoiSt 33 for a
Week 6 · UTSA · 3rd and 8 · Q4 · EPA +2.90Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 21 yds to the TexSA 28 for a
Week 1 · UCF · 3rd and 13 · Q3 · EPA +2.84Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 15 yds to the BYU 45 for a
Week 15 · San Diego State · 3rd and 5 · Q1 · EPA +2.76Zach Wilson pass complete to Dax Milne for 5 yds for a TD (Jake Oldroyd KICK)

Teams and coaches

3 seasons under Kalani Sitake — 25-13 over that span.

2018BYU7-6HC: Kalani Sitake · Run-leaning

2019BYU7-6HC: Kalani Sitake · Balanced

2020BYU11-1HC: Kalani Sitake · Balanced

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2020 season

13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (87th percentile). Strength: epa / target (84th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Yards / catch#9 / 65 · 87th pct

17.2

EPA / target#11 / 65 · 84th pct

0.85

Explosive rate#16 / 65 · 76th pct

18.3%

Catch rate#18 / 65 · 72nd pct

74.2%

TD rate#21 / 65 · 68th pct

8.6%

Box-score rates (8)

Rec yards#4 / 421 · 99th pct

1189

Receptions#6 / 421 · 99th pct

Rec TDs#14 / 421 · 95th pct

Long catch#28 / 421 · 93rd pct

Rush yards#19 / 202 · 91st pct

Yards / catch#53 / 421 · 87th pct

17.0

Rush TDs#38 / 202 · 41st pct

Fumbles lost#59 / 146 · 35th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

15th → 84th percentile

Explosive rate

74th → 76th percentile

Catch rate

13th → 72nd percentile

TD rate

56th → 68th percentile

Yards / catch

66th → 87th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2020. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2020 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home7g	6.0	99.3	17.4	0.6
Road4g	5.2	106	20.7	1.0

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-75g	6.6	110	15.9	0.8
Weeks 8+6g	5.0	94.8	20.8	0.7

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2020 season

Head Coach

Kalani Sitake

Pass share

47.6%

371 pass / 408 run

Plays / game

70.8

11 games

Team sack rate

3.3%

399 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2020

Heisman model top 25

Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2020.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Dax Milne

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Style of play

Fans

BYU in the news

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Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Heisman model top 25

Three seasons at BYU, drafted

2018 9 games

2021