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Cameron Mitchell

Indianapolis Colts
Pos CB
Updated October 9, 2026
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Model Score

66.5 MODEL
2023
66.0
2024
66.9
2025
69.2

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

Tier 8 (#113) in 2024 to tier 5 (#35) breakout in 2025 is a 78-spot one-year jump that confirms the change-of-scenery to Indianapolis as the catalyst. The Northwestern Big Ten 5th-round origin plus three years of NFL development give him basic late-bloomer journeyman value. The 2026 question is whether Mitchell holds tier 5 or better across a full second Colts season or whether the 2025 finish was a one-year context spike.

Mitchell came out of Northwestern as the Cleveland Browns' 5th-round pick (142nd overall) in 2023 and bounced through the Browns before being acquired by the Indianapolis Colts in 2025. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#92) rookie, tier 8 (#113) in 2024, and tier 5 (#35) breakout in 2025.

Strengths

  • 78-spot year-over-year jump from tier 8 (#113) in 2024 to tier 5 (#35) breakout in 2025 puts him in the outlier-positive class for late-round CB prospects.
  • Northwestern Big Ten 5th-round origin plus three years of NFL survival gives him real journeyman veteran value.

Concerns

  • Single tier 5 finish in an otherwise tier 8 STTM history puts the 2025 production on a small sample with significant downside risk.
  • Indianapolis's broader defensive identity around the multi-year offensive instability compresses the structural support around Mitchell.

What to watch: Whether Mitchell holds tier 5 or better across the full 2026 Colts season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural.

Comps

Coming out
pros whose college production, size and testing looked like his
Rashad Fenton ’1980%Kendall Sheffield ’1975%J.C. Jackson ’1872%

Names you know nearby: Deandre Baker ’19 72%, Leodis McKelvin ’08 71%.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 1 star, 5 starters, 11 backups, 3 didn't stick.

Cameron Mitchell Injury StatusNot listed

Cameron Mitchell is not on the injury report as of Oct 8. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Draft & College

Round 5, pick 142 · Cleveland Browns · 2023
Northwestern (Big Ten)
Taken
#142
where he actually went
Consensus board
127th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#106
among CB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2020-2022 · 32 games
2 INT, 18 pass breakups, 118 tackles, 4 TFL

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

What this pick usually becomes

Of the 450 players taken as a fourth-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 38% earned a second contract and 26% became starters. The median one started 11 career games.

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