2022 Football Roster
Kendall Milton
- Position:
- RB
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 220
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Fresno, Calif.
- High School:
- Buchanan
Career Highs
* 156 rushing yards at Georgia Tech, 2023
* 18 rushes at Georgia Tech, 2023
* Long rush of 51 yards vs. LSU, 2022; vs. Ole Miss, 2023
2023: Played in 13 games, making starts vs. Ball State and vs. Florida State in the Capital One Orange Bowl…second on the team with 121 carries for 790 yards while leading the Bulldogs with 14 rushing TDs…led the Bulldogs with 53 rushing yards on nine carries, including a 37-yard rush, in season-opening win vs UT Martin...rushed for 18 yards and one TD in win vs. Ball State...rushed for 47 yards and one touchdown on eight attempts vs. Kentucky...ran for 53 yards on five attempts, scoring a 28-yard touchdown at Vanderbilt...had 13 rushes for 55 yards and a touchdown in win over Florida...recorded nine rushing attempts for 44 yards, posting a 15-yard touchdown run in win over Missouri...had nine carries for team-high 127 yards and two touchdowns, including a 51-yard run vs. Ole Miss…also added a 12-yard catch against the Rebels...led the Bulldogs with 66 rushing yards and one touchdown on 14 carries in win at Tennessee...had 18 carries for a career-best 156 yards and two touchdowns in win at Georgia Tech...rushed 13 times for 42 yards and two TDs in SEC Championship vs. Alabama...named Capital One Orange Bowl MVP after leading the team with 104 rushing yards on nine attempts with two touchdowns…led the Bulldogs in rushing for the final five games of the season...included on Senior Bowl Watch List...named to Preseason Media Days All-SEC Second Team.
2022: Georgia's third-leading rusher through all games, with 592 yards on 85 carries, despite missing two games because of injury...has highest per-carry average (7.0) of all regular ball carriers on the team...led Bulldog rushers in season-opening win over No. 11 Oregon, with 50 yards on eight carries and a 12-yard TD run...had a career-high 85 yards on 10 carries vs. Samford...had a rushing touchdown, as well as two receptions for forty yards in win at South Carolina...scored on a 34-yard run in win at Miss. State...also scored on a career-long 44-yard run in win over Georgia Tech...team-leading and career-high 113 rushing yards on just eight carries in SEC Championship Game win over LSU...also had an 18-yard TD catch in the game...three carries for an average of 8.7 yards with one touchdown in CFP Semifinal Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl win over Ohio State...team-leading 10 carries for 33 yards in win over TCU in CFP National Championship Game.
2021: Team’s fourth-leading rusher, with 264 yards on 56 carries (4.7 avg.)...career-high 12 carries in gaining 48 yards vs. Arkansas...his 66 rushing yards in win over South Carolina were also a career high...nine carries for 43 yards in win at Auburn...had eight rushes for 26 yards vs. UAB...had six carries for 21 yards in Georgia’s season-opening win over Clemson...also caught one pass vs. the Tigers...made key play in win over #11 Kentucky, recovering a fumble (confirmed by replay) that was thought to be an incomplete pass; the Bulldogs scored on their next play...missed six late-season games because of injury before returning to action in Capital One Orange Bowl.
2020: Freshman All-SEC team, as voted by both the Associated Press and the league's 14 head coaches...saw action in seven of 10 games, starting vs. Florida...rushed for 195 yards on 35 carries and also caught one pass for 22 yards...led Bulldogs with 56 yards on eight carries in win over Tennessee...44 yards on six carries vs. Alabama, including a season-long 24-yarder...gained 30 yards on six carries in win over Auburn...carried once for four yards in the season-opening win at Arkansas...enrolled at UGA in January of 2020...named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for Fall 2020.
High School: Buchanan, coached by Matt Giordano...selected to play in the 2020 All-American Bowl...247sports.com composite four-star prospect, #53 prospect nationally, #6 running back prospect and #4 from the state of California...PrepStar Magazine five-star prospect, Top 150 Dream Team, #4 RB, #24 prospect nationally...rivals.com five-star prospect, #29 prospect nationally, #7 RB nationally and the #4 player from California...ESPN.com four-star prospect, #96 prospect nationally, #7 RB prospect nationally, #5 prospect from California and #10 prospect in the West region...as a senior, led the Bears to a 10-3 overall record and a 4-1 record in CIF Central Section Division I...was named to the 2019 MaxPreps Preseason All-American First Team offense...as a junior, he carried the ball 174 times for 1,337 yards (7.7 yards per carry) and 27 TDs...named to the 2018 MaxPreps Preseason Junior All-American First Team offense and earned a second-team selection after the season...also tabbed for the USA Today 2018 ALL-USA California First Team offense after his junior campaign...sophomore-year stats: 175 carries for 1,514 yards (8.7 ypc) and 23 TDs, along with eight catches for 117 yards and two TDs...had 65 carries for 478 yards and six rushing TDs as a freshman.
Personal: Full name: KENDALL DANIEL MILTON...Major: Consumer Economics...recipient of the James E. and Peggy A. Hickey Memorial Scholarship Endowment and Davis Family Football Scholarship...older brother Ka’Lonn played collegiately at Fresno State... uncle Kevin Hardy is a former Butkus Award winner at Illinois, was the No. 2 pick in the 1996 NFL Draft, and played nine seasons in the NFL.
