Dedrick Mills is in the running for more than just the Canadian Football League’s rushing title. Article content

The Calgary Stampeders running back is also up for the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player — that after being nominated for the award by the local chapter of the Football Reporters of Canada and the team’s coaching staff. Article content Article content

It’s the right choice given Mills’ game-in, game-out consistency and the production he’s had in helping the Stampeders to a turnaround season — a 10-7 one that has them in the chase for second place in the West Division with Friday’s final game of the regular schedule on tap against the host Edmonton Elks (7:30 p.m., TSN, CHQR 770 AM/107.3 FM the Edge).

“I wasn’t expecting all this,” the 28-year-old native of Waycross, Ga., t

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