{"id":869810,"date":"2026-04-19T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:06:39","slug":"saints-dl-coach-bo-davis-meets-with-indiana-edge-mikail-kamara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869810\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints DL Coach Bo Davis Meets With Indiana EDGE Mikail Kamara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">New Orleans Saints defensive line coach Bo Davis has reportedly met with Indiana EDGE Mikail Kamara, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronWilson_NFL?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aaron Wilson<\/a> of KPRC-2 Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 24-year-old spent the first two seasons of his career at James Madison, posting 65 total tackles (35 solo), two passes defended, 11.5 sacks and five forced fumbles over that span, while earning second-team All-Sun Belt honors in 2023 as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kamara transferred to Indiana as a junior, where he earned first-team all big 10 and third-team All American in his first season with the Hoosiers after posting 47 total tackles (19 solo), one pass broken up, 10 sacks and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This past season, Kamara helped lead Indiana to a national championship, earning Defensive Player of the Game honors. He finished his senior year with 34 total tackles (12 solo), one pass defended and two sacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kamara also posted a 77.7 overall defensive grade from Pro Football Focus in 2025, ranking 133rd among 852 qualifying edge rushers. His 78.4 pass-rush grade ranked 122nd with 47 total pressures, while his 78.8 run-defense grade ranked 105th at the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Saints are clearly focused on adding another pass rusher in the draft, and Kamara could be an intriguing developmental piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints defensive line coach Bo Davis has reportedly met with Indiana EDGE Mikail Kamara, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,402,401,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-869810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints-draft","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints-news","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116430817438700168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}