Cameron Mitchell
Indianapolis ColtsModel Score
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 →
Season Stats · 10 games
Draft & College
He went about where consensus had him.
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Comps
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.