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Camryn Bynum

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Camryn Bynum: facts drawn from the play-by-play.

From midround pick to four straight full seasons as a starting safety - and now a Colt.

Trend

Bynum regular-season production by year

YearTeamGTacklesAssistsPDsINTs
2021MIN720831
2022MIN17433264
2023MIN17784392
2024MIN174642103
2025IND17473184

Combined tackles (solo + assist) by season

SeasonCombined tackles
202128
202275
2023121
202488
202578

A 4th-round pick in 2021 who spent his rookie year as a depth piece (7 games). Then four straight 17-game seasons. The 2023 tackle total (121 combined) was a top-15 safety mark league-wide.

The move from Minnesota to Indianapolis in 2025 came with a 4-year, $60M deal in free agency. The early returns are exactly what the Colts paid for: 4 INTs in 17 games, his second-most in a season, and an 8-PD output. He's now the highest-paid player on Indy's defense at his position.

4 INTs in two different seasons (2022, 2025) - and a 7-INT total over the past two years.

Milestone

Bynum two-year INT totals (2024-25)

YearTeamGPDsINTs
2024MIN17103
2025IND1784
Combined-34187

18 PDs and 7 INTs over the past two seasons. That's a 38.9% INT-per-PD conversion rate - well above average for the position.

The 2025 INT total (4) is notable because he didn't have Brian Flores's exotic-blitz scheme generating chaos coverages anymore. Indianapolis runs a much more conventional defense; Bynum is producing in it on his own.

In 2023 he had 121 combined tackles - one of the league's most prolific run-support safeties.

Comparison

Bynum's tackle workload by year

YearSoloAssistsCombinedPer game
2021208284.0
20224332754.4
202378431217.1
20244642885.2
20254731784.6

The 2023 explosion (121 combined) was the contract-year version. Then 2024 settled to 88 - still solid - and 2025 in Indianapolis is 78 through 17 games.

The per-game number drop from 7.1 to 4.6 over two years is significant. He's playing more deep coverage now, less alley-fill. Indianapolis pays him for the ball production, not the tackle volume - and the trade-off has shown up cleanly in the splits.

Minnesota Bynum was a tackle-machine. Indianapolis Bynum is a ball-hawk.

Split

Per-stop per-game rates

StopGTacklesAssistsPDsINTsINT/G
Minnesota (2021-24)5818712528100.172
Indianapolis (2025)174731840.235

In Minnesota: 0.172 INTs per game (10 in 58 starts). In Indianapolis: 0.235, an upgrade of 37%.

The combined-tackle pace dropped from 5.4/game in MIN to 4.6/game in IND. He's seeing fewer plays at the line. That's the modern free-safety profile: fewer tackles, more takeaways, which is exactly what teams pay $60M for. The early returns on the contract are good.

He's tied for 8th-most INTs by any DB over the past two seasons.

Rare

Bynum's 7-INT 2024-25 vs his peers

PlayerINTs 2024-25
Kevin Byard12
Kerby Joseph11
Xavier McKinney10
Camryn Bynum7
Byron Murphy8

Across 2024-25, Bynum's 7 INTs over 34 games put him among the league's high-volume takeaway safeties.

What the trajectory says: 4 INTs in 2022, 2 in 2023, 3 in 2024, 4 in 2025. He hasn't had fewer than 2 INTs in any full season of his career. The Colts are getting a player whose ball production is the most predictable part of his game.

He has played every game for four consecutive seasons - a unicorn at his position.

Anomaly

Games played per year

YearGPossible
2021717
20221717
20231717
20241717
20251717

68 of a possible 68 games since he became a starter in 2022. That's iron-man territory at safety, where league-average availability is closer to 14 games per year.

The Colts paid him for the production - but the availability is what makes the deal work. A 4-year contract with a player who has missed 0 games in 4 years carries a different risk profile than one who has missed 3-5 per year. That's the under-the-hood reason he ended up on the open market with multiple suitors.

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