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Travon McMillian

American football player (born 1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ137602086 ↗
Source-derived summary

Travon Delonté McMillian (born February 5, 1996) is an American former football running back. He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies and Colorado Buffaloes.

Early life

McMillian attended C.D. Hylton Senior High School in Woodbridge, Virginia. He played quarterback in high school, totaling 3,009 yards and 37 touchdowns during his senior year. Following his high school career, McMillian committed to play college football at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

College career

After redshirting in 2014, McMillian switched positions to running back. During his redshirt freshman season in 2015, he earned the role of the Hokies' starting running back, rushing for 1,042 yards on 200 carries for seven touchdowns. The following season, McMillian rushed for 671 yards and seven touchdowns on 145 carries. After rushing for 439 yards on 104 carries in 2017, he transferred to the University of Colorado Boulder. McMillian entered the 2018 season as the team's starting running back.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Travon McMillian” as american football player (born 1996). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2014, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-02-05. The account is most persuasive where Travon, McMillian and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american football player (born 1996). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137602086. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Travon McMillian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.