The Texans closed out their draft with Fisher, the heart and soul of Indiana’s national championship defense.
A zero-star recruit who walked on at James Madison before following head coach Curt Cignetti to Bloomington, Fisher finished his career with 328 tackles in 51 games, back-to-back first-team All-Big Ten selections, first-team All-American honors, and a Butkus Award finalist nod. Athlon Sports called him “a supercomputer in human form” whose “football IQ and processing are off the charts.” Cignetti has consistently called Fisher a “special guy,” and his leadership transformation from quiet underclassman to vocal defensive captain was widely praised — he recorded sacks in both the Big Ten Championship and the CFP semifinal en route to Indiana’s first-ever national title. Fisher profiles as a dependable backup MIKE linebacker with early green-dot potential and immediate special teams value. His father passed away on his 11th birthday, and his stepfather died of brain cancer in 2019 — Fisher wears No. 4 in honor of his mother, two sisters, and himself. He earned two first-team All-America nods, the first Indiana linebacker ever to do so, and graduated with a 4.1 high school GPA before earning Academic All-Big Ten honors.