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Every NFL team represented at Indiana football fall camp

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Indiana's Fernando Mendoza (15) at Indiana University football practice on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025.

As fall camp for Indiana football wraps up this week, it was a busy month of visitors with numerous NFL scouts and executives spending time in Bloomington.

All 32 NFL teams were represented at one point during Indiana’s fall camp, including 57 total visits from scouts or front office personnel.

After an 11-2 season in 2024 — including a trip to the College Football Playoff — Indiana sent two members of its roster, CJ West and Kurtis Rourke, to the NFL through the draft and had numerous others sign undrafted free agent deals — notably receivers Ke’Shawn Williams and Myles Price who have had great preseasons thus far.

Heading into 2025, however, the expectation is Indiana could be fielding numerous potential NFL draftees next spring. Among them include Fernando Mendoza, the transfer quarterback from Cal who is receiving some first-round grades in early mock drafts.

Other potential players receiving interest include Mikail Kamara, Pat Coogan, Carter Smith, Aiden Fisher, D’Angelo Ponds and Elijah Sarratt.

Kamara, Fisher, Ponds and Sarratt either finished last year or enter this season as All-American selections.

Indiana enters the 2025 season ranked No. 20 in the AP Preseason Top 25.

It begins the season at home on August 30 against Old Dominion.

“This year’s team has a lot of nice pieces. I would use that term, “pieces.” Now we’ve got to mold this group into a team in fall camp,” Cignetti said at the start of fall camp. “Like a lot of parts on this team — now we’ve got to get them all thinking alike, buying into the team vision, which is critical to success.

“You can’t ever have any selfishness on your team, ever, regardless of who it is. Personal goals are secondary to team goals. When a team is successful, everyone benefits. So we’ve got a blueprint. We’ve got a plan. We try to improve it, our methods, but for the most part, continuity in staff, everyone thinking alike. Understanding what needs done and how we do it has been the key to the drill.”

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