Zack Mills

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Zack Mills (born May 1, 1982) is a former American football quarterback who played for Penn State from 2001 to 2004. He grew up in Ijamsville, Maryland, and starred at Urbana High School, where he helped win two straight 2A state titles (1998, 1999) and set Maryland records for passing yards and touchdown passes. At Penn State, Mills started four seasons, wore number 7, and led the Nittany Lions to the Capital One Bowl in the 2002 season. He was a three-time Davey O’Brien Award finalist and received the 2004 Hall Foundation Award as Penn State’s outstanding senior football player. He left Penn State with records for total offense and 41 career touchdown passes, plus 16 games with 200-yard passing performances; he also became the first Nittany Lion under coach Joe Paterno to throw, catch, and run for a touchdown in a single game (2004 vs Akron). He graduated in 2004 with a kinesiology degree.

Mills spent a brief time with the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2005 but was released after hamstring injuries. He later joined the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers in 2007 but left soon after. Mills moved into coaching, serving as an assistant coach at Temple in 2006 under Al Golden, then coaching quarterbacks at The Haverford School in Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2010.