Scott Vermillion (December 23, 1976 – December 25, 2020) was an American professional soccer player from Olathe, Kansas, who played for the Kansas City Wizards and Colorado Rapids.^[1][2][3] He entered the league in 1998 as a member of Generation Adidas, then known as Project 40. He was a Third Team All American in his junior year at the University of Virginia before joining Project 40.^[4] In his final season at UVA the team finished as runner up to UCLA in the 1997 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.

He died on December 25, 2020, at the age of 44 from acute alcohol and prescription drug poisoning.^[5] In 2022, Boston University examined his brain and found that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Vermillion was the first soccer player to have been diagnosed with CTE posthumously.^[6]