Mikail Kamara

Senior defensive lineman for Indiana. 2025: 2 sacks, 7.5 tackles for loss, 34 tackles.

DL · Indiana · Sr. · #6

6′1″ · 265 lb · Ashburn, VA

CFB Index 68 · #103 of 420 edge rushersLow confidenceReturning to Indiana for 2026

How he plays

Disrupts the pocket from the interior.

Tackles for loss: 91st percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

sacks · 2025

7.5 TFL · 34 tackles · 4 hurries

Best game: 1 sacks, 2 TFL, 5 tackles, vs Kennesaw State

Statement game7 tackles · 4.5 TFL · 2.5 sacksat Michigan State (FBS) · W 47-10

Top 0.1% tackles for loss game since 2021.

Kamara is the best DE in the nationr/CFB game thread · ▲ 3His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive lineman for Indiana. 2025: 2 sacks, 7.5 tackles for loss, 34 tackles.

Transferred from James Madison to Indiana in 2024.

His career, year by year

Mikail Kamara

DL · Indiana · Sr · #6

Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Across four seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Curt Cignetti and Damian Wroblewski. He has been named All-Big Ten two seasons running, most recently in 2024. The receipt on tape: 5 tackles, 2 TFL against Kennesaw State, Week 2, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022James Madison8-3HC: Curt Cignetti · Run-leaning

2023James Madison11-2HC: Damian Wroblewski · Balanced

2024Indiana11-2HC: Curt Cignetti · Run-leaning

2025Indiana16-0HC: Curt Cignetti · Run-heavy

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

68Quality starter #103 of 420?

Medium confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles for loss (91st percentile). Strength: qb hurries (88th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Tackles for loss#234 / 2975 · 91st pct

7.5

QB hurries#288 / 2975 · 88th pct

Sacks#487 / 2975 · 80th pct

2.0

Tackles#1138 / 2975 · 61st pct

Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct

Solo tackles#1735 / 2975 · 40th pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 15 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home9g	2.3	0.6	0.2	0.1
Road6g	2.2	0.4	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-78g	2.2	0.5	0.2	0.1
Weeks 8+7g	2.3	0.5	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Curt Cignetti

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

68 · #103 of 420 edge rushers

Unranked recruit. Now #103 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot to repeat All-Big Ten

Based on 2025: #19 of 69 Big Ten DLs

How the All-Big Ten estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Indiana	34	12	7.5	2.0	1	--	--
2024	Indiana	46	18	14.0	9.0	1	--	--
2023	James Madison	51	28	18.5	7.5	2	--	--
2022	James Madison	13	6	3.5	3.0	--	--	--
Career		144	64	43.5	21.5	4	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 15 · 2025

W 13–10

at Ohio State

1 TOT · 0 TFL

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 on the road.

With F. Mendoza — 222 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 90.2 · -3 rush yds (5 car) · C. Becker — 6 rec · 126 yds

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 15 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 27-14vs Old Dominion	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	W 56-9vs Kennesaw State	5	3	2.0	1.0	—	0	Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 3	W 73-0vs Indiana State	0	0	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 5	W 20-15@ Iowa	2	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	W 30-20@ Oregon	2	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 8	W 38-13vs Michigan State	2	1	0.5	0.0	—	0
Wk 9	W 56-6vs UCLA	2	0	0.5	0.0	—	0
Wk 10	W 55-10@ Maryland	2	1	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 11	W 27-24@ Penn State	2	1	1.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 12	W 31-7vs Wisconsin	3	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	W 56-3@ Purdue	4	2	1.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 15	W 13-10@ Ohio State	1	0	0.5	0.0	—	0
Bowl	W 38-3vs Alabama	1	1	1.0	1.0	—	0
Bowl	W 56-22vs Oregon	3	0	1.0	0.0	—	0
Bowl	W 27-21vs Miami	4	3	0.0	0.0	—	0
Total		34	12	7.5	2.0	—	1

How he plays

Play style

Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

15 games

34Tackles

12Solo

7.5TFL

2Sacks

1Pass def.

0INT

34 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 7.5 TFL.

Week 11 sack
Week 21 sack
Week 31 PD

Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.

2026 Outlook

Indiana

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive line · Indiana

Returning around him

8 Indiana players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +0 net (17 in / 17 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Indiana · Last season: 16-0 (AP #1) · Talent rank #38 · 2026 recruiting class #29

DNA match

Player DNA

3-Tech Penetrator

Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Chad Stephens’s 2022 season.

Chad Stephens

91%match

East Carolina · 2022

Owen Ostroski

Tulsa · 2024

85%

Dashaun Mallory

Arizona State · 2023

83%

CJ Bazile Jr.

Liberty · 2025

80%

Elijah Chatman

SMU · 2021

All-AAC

80%

Matches Chad on

TFL rate

Hurry rate

Height

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Owen Ostroski's senior season at Tulsa (2024).

Owen Ostroski

90%match

Tulsa · 2024

Dashaun Mallory

Arizona State · 2023

84%

Kevin Pointer

Wake Forest · 2023

79%

CJ Bazile Jr.

Liberty · 2025

All-Conference USA

78%

Nana Osafo-Mensah

TCU · 2024

77%

Matches Owen on

Weight

Sack rate

Hurry rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Mikail Kamara

William Whitlow Jr.

Memphis · 2024

85%

Owen Ostroski

Tulsa · 2023

80%

CJ Bazile Jr.

Liberty · 2025

80%

Santana Hopper

Tulane · 2025

80%

J.D. Lampley

East Carolina · 2023

74%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Mikail Kamara

202312 games

202413 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

3-Tech Penetrator

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