Cam
Miller.
Cam
Miller.
North Dakota St.
"A decorated FCS winner with an undeniable knack for clean football, his NFL potential hinges on whether his production was scheme-fueled or a testament to high-level processing despite an average arm."Pre-draft read
A five-year starter in North Dakota State's play-action and gap-scheme offense, Miller operates from under center and gun with veteran command: clean footwork off boot and naked action, quick eyes to the first read, and a genuine willingness to hang in the pocket until the second window opens. His delivery is compact and repeatable, and the ball comes out on rhythm.
The second layer is his legs. He is not an explosive runner, but he is a decisive one — 526 carries and 48 rushing touchdowns as the tip of a heavy zone-read and short-yardage package. The signature is decision-making: 81 touchdowns to 19 interceptions across 67 games and a 69.3 percent career completion rate, built on taking the checkdown and living to punt.
Play-action-heavy, run-first offenses with defined half-field reads — wide zone or gap-scheme systems that put the quarterback under center and use boot and naked action to move the launch point
Year 1-2: QB3 on the roster or practice squad learning an NFL install. Ceiling: a long-term QB2 who can start four or five games in a run-based offense without losing them, with designed-run packages as his differentiator.
A dropback, full-field progression passing game that asks him to throw the boundary comeback and the deep out on time, or an offense that needs its backup to create off platform when the pocket collapses — neither matches the arm or the athletic profile.
His value goes up sharply in a system that already runs quarterback keepers, because the short-yardage package survives the switch from starter to backup.
Cam Miller 2024 Highlights | North Dakota State Football
His championship senior season: play-action rhythm throws, the intermediate crossers and the short-yardage keeper package that defined the 33-touchdown year.
Cam Miller 2023 Highlights | North Dakota State Football
Junior-year cutups showing the pocket toughness and the decision-making floor a year before the production spike.
Cam Miller 2021 Season Highlights | North Dakota State Football
Early tape from the first national title run, when he was splitting time and winning primarily with his legs.
Miller is a five-year, 56-start FCS quarterback who won everything there was to win at the level and did it by never beating himself. He is the fourth Bison quarterback drafted in a decade, a two-time national champion, the 2024 title game MVP and the MVFC Offensive Player of the Year, and he left Fargo owning the program's career records for total offense, completions and passing yards.
The evaluation is about ceiling, not competence. His 2024 tape is the best version — 73.5 percent, 3,251 yards, 33 touchdowns to four picks and a 180.1 rating — but it is produced inside a run-first structure with heavy play-action, defined reads and an offensive line that gave him time. The arm is average: he can drive the intermediate out and layer the seam, but the deep ball floats and he does not create velocity off platform. The flags are level of competition, average size at just under 6-1, and a pro day that confirmed ordinary athletic traits.
The board treated him as a day-three developmental backup with a real floor — the kind of processor and leader who survives an install and does not get a coordinator fired in relief. Las Vegas took him at 215 with a public endorsement from Tom Brady — fair value for a QB3 with a chance at more.
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Decision-making
81 touchdowns to 19 interceptions over 67 games and a 69.3 percent career completion rate; he plays the down in front of him instead of chasing the throw that loses the game.
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Play-action operator
clean under-center footwork off boot and naked action, with the eye discipline to hold the second level and hit the crosser behind it.
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Designed-run value
526 carries, 2,277 yards and 48 rushing touchdowns; a legitimate short-yardage and red-zone threat who does not need to be schemed away from contact.
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Program pedigree and leadership
two-time captain, two national championships, 54 consecutive starts and a 45-11 record as the starter at the sport's most demanding FCS program.
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Pocket toughness
hangs on the spot through pressure and takes the hit to finish the throw, which is the trait that keeps a backup alive behind a thin offensive line.
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Average arm talent
the deep ball floats and he lacks the velocity to fit the NFL dig or the boundary comeback into tight coverage.
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Level of competition
five FCS seasons behind a dominant offensive line, with the Colorado game as the only real Power Four data point on his tape.
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Ordinary athletic profile
a 4.84 forty and 32-inch vertical at the pro day show a decisive runner rather than the creator his rushing touchdown total suggests.
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Scheme dependency
his best reps come off defined play-action reads; asked to win from empty and full-field progressions, the ball comes out late.
| Yr | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | North Dakota State | 8 | 30 | 59 | 363 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | North Dakota State | 13 | 103 | 151 | 1444 | 14 | 3 |
| 2022 | North Dakota State | 15 | 160 | 244 | 1975 | 13 | 5 |
| 2023 | North Dakota State | 15 | 208 | 291 | 2687 | 19 | 4 |
| 2024 | North Dakota State | 16 | 258 | 351 | 3251 | 33 | 4 |
| Career | — | 67 | 759 | 1096 | 9720 | 81 | 19 |
Full five-year NDSU line including FCS playoff games; every season column sums exactly to the career totals (759/1,096 for 9,720 yards, 81 TD, 19 INT; 526 carries for 2,277 yards and 48 TD; 67 games, 56 starts). Career marks: 69.3 completion percentage, 164.7 rating, 45-11 record as a starter and 54 consecutive starts across his final four seasons.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
- Nathan HayesQB14%
- Bryce LanceWR11%
- Kaden ZenzenTE7%
#1 of 17 tracked contributors · Production leaned on volume · CFBD — usage x PPA per tracked player
The direct NDSU precedent — decorated Bison starter who becomes a durable, dependable NFL backup with occasional spot duty.
Undersized, tough small-school passer who processes well enough to start stretches of games without the arm to hold the job.
Winning college dual-threat whose arm and size keep him on the practice-squad carousel without ever holding a QB2 job.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Las Vegas kept him through the summer, gave him real preseason work, then waived him on August 26 in final cuts and re-signed him to the practice squad the next day. He spent the entire 2025 season there without a single game-day elevation, sitting behind the veteran room while the Raiders sorted out a losing year. The one meaningful signal came at the very end: Miami signed him off the Raiders' practice squad to its active 53 on January 1, 2026, poaching him in Week 18 specifically to keep him under contract into 2026 as a developmental piece behind Tua Tagovailoa, Quinn Ewers and Zach Wilson.
That is the normal life of a sixth-round quarterback, and it is not a failure. Getting claimed onto another team's active roster before your rookie contract's second year means at least one staff outside your own building watched the tape and wanted the developmental swing. He arrives in Miami competing for QB3 with a two-year, $1.8 million deal and no NFL snaps to his name, which means the entire evaluation is still open. The pre-draft read — high floor, capped ceiling, survives on processing rather than arm — has not been tested at all yet.
Data note: Full five-year NDSU line including FCS playoff games; every season column sums exactly to the career totals (759/1,096 for 9,720 yards, 81 TD, 19 INT; 526 carries for 2,277 yards and 48 TD; 67 games, 56 starts). Career marks: 69.3 completion percentage, 164.7 rating, 45-11 record as a starter and 54 consecutive starts across his final four seasons.