The Texans closed out their draft with Fisher, the heart and soul of Indiana’s national championship defense.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 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 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texans closed out their draft with Fisher, the heart and soul of Indiana’s national championship defense. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70031,98805,98806,62319,99498,12549,56,58,57,81117,34588,99584,99593,99276,99592],"class_list":{"0":"post-266515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-2026-draft-news","10":"tag-2026-draft-picks","11":"tag-draft","12":"tag-febechi-nwaiwu","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-kamari-ramsey","18":"tag-kayden-mcdonald","19":"tag-keylan-rutledge","20":"tag-lewis-bond","21":"tag-marlin-klein","22":"tag-wade-woodaz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}