Who are Mello Dotson's parents?

Mello Dotson is a former collegiate cornerback who represented Kansas from 2020 to 2024. Dotson is one of the draft prospects in the 2025 NFL draft. Dotson received his secondary education from Mainland High School, where he registered 110 return yards on his five picks while also tallying five pass breakups in 2019. Dotson’s production score of 70, presented by Next Gen Stats, ranked him 13th among all cornerbacks at the 2025 NFL Combine, as recorded by the NFL’s official website.

Revisiting his collegiate career, Mello Dotson played 53 games for the Jayhawks in his five-year collegiate tenure. Dotson started his post-high school football career by appearing in just four games in his first year as a Jayhawk. Dotson got a start under his belt that year, as per University of Kansas' official website. In his second season at Kansas, Dotson accumulated 24 total tackles. Since 2021, Dotson played in at least 12 games each season until he concluded his collegiate career. Dotson’s Jayhawks career saw him tally 177 total tackles, five tackles for loss, a sack, 12 interceptions, and 25 pass deflections. Dotson also took four interceptions to the house during that period, as per Sports Reference.

Mello Dotson's parents

Mello Dotson was born to Chenette Lord and Meiko Dotson on February 19, 2002. He also has a brother named Meiko Dotson Jr. who plays on the team at Florida Atlantic (via Mello Dotson's roster page on the University of Kansas official website). In an interview with Mark Muhammad on the YouTube channel 'Headeus Maximus', Mello states his mother's boyfriend, Tony Williams, helped him stay committed to football. In the same interview, he also mentions that Meiko Dotson Sr. was imprisoned several times during his childhood and was primarily raised by his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. However, there is no viable information about his parents' professions on the internet.