He played college football for the BYU Cougars,[1] earning first-team All-American honors in 1996.
Mili attended Kahuku High School and lived in Lā'ie, Hawai'i, where he starred in football, basketball, and track.
In 1994, his sophomore season, Mili filled in two games for the injured starter Chad Lewis.
However, he was unable to play due to surgery to repair a knee injury that was sustained during the 1996 Western Athletic Conference championship game against Wyoming.
[5][6] He played on a Seahawks Super Bowl team that consisted of Walter Jones, Shaun Alexander, Matt Hasselbeck, Mack Strong, Steve Hutchinson, and fellow Samoan teammate Lofa Tatupu.