Von Miller

Von Miller grew up in DeSoto and starred at Texas A&M before Denver selected him second overall in 2011. He became Super Bowl 50 MVP and later won another championship with the Los Angeles Rams.

After stops with Buffalo and Washington, Miller agreed to join the Dallas Cowboys in August 2026. That homecoming makes his Texas profile unusually circular: North Texas upbringing, College Station development and, late in his career, the hometown NFL franchise.

Miller's pass-rush résumé spans multiple franchises and two championships.

His 2026 Dallas signing adds a direct professional homecoming to already-deep Texas roots.

Few active-era stars have a Texas arc as geographically complete as Miller's: DeSoto shaped the high-school prospect, Texas A&M developed the college pass rusher, and the Cowboys eventually brought the veteran back to North Texas. That return does not erase his championship work elsewhere; it instead gives the Texas portion of his biography a beginning, middle and late-career professional chapter.