Lights, camera, action. Silence your cell phones, please. The movie – and the dancing – is about to begin.

Cam Bynum is known for a lot of things. His dancing celebrations on the football field, his penchant to say "It's gonna be a movie" for just about anything – and making good on that promise – and high-level football skills are among the many traits that make the safety who he is.

Bynum loves football. He loves making big plays, taking the ball away and winning. He loves having fun. He also loves his family – his mother and wife are both from the Philippines, and that's where the proud Filipino spends his offseasons. That's ultimately how, at 4 a.m. local time, Bynum – who hadn't yet gone to bed – found himself agreeing to a deal with the Colts.

"The way that it's a family-run organization, that's the first thing that I learned when I started researching and talking to other guys," Bynum said. "That's the first thing I saw when I got here, how tight-knit everything is, how really just personable everybody is. That's something that's stood out to me so far."

The Filipino menu on the private jet Bynum and his family took to get to Indianapolis from California also stood out – "I'm home," Bynum thought when he saw it. The Colts had done their research. He'd also done his.

Among the players Bynum reached out to for advice were cornerback Stephon Gilmore, who played for the Colts in 2022 and was teammates with Bynum on the Minnesota Vikings in 2024, and current Colts linebacker Segun Olubi. Bynum and Olubi know each other from their high school days – both are graduates of Centennial High School in California – and saw each other just a few weeks ago, when Olubi traveled to the Philippines to train with Bynum.

At that point, neither man knew Bynum might end up in Indianapolis. But their conversations about the Colts certainly came in handy a little while later.

"Just hearing about it from him even before we knew this place was an option, and as soon as they came calling and sent an offer, I was like 'Okay, this is a really heavy option,'" Bynum said. "Once everything fell down to it, this – for sure – I knew this was the place I needed to be."

The Colts were aggressive in pursuing the free agent, and it paid off.

"You can tell when certain people truly want you," Bynum explained. "They were really eager to get me."

Who wouldn't be?

Through 65 career games (54 starts), the 26-year-old safety has compiled 342 tackles, 20 pass break-ups, eight interceptions, five tackles for a loss, three forced fumbles and 1 ½ sacks. He started all 17 games in each of his last three seasons with Minnesota, and is coming off a career year in 2024 in which he had a career-high 10 passes defensed, including three interceptions. In 2023, Bynum recorded 137 tackles for the fifth-most any safety has had over the last 10 years.

When Bynum was selected in the fourth round of the 2021 NFL Draft, he was technically a cornerback; that was the position he had played throughout college at Cal. But the Vikings believed he could be a valuable asset as a safety, and so Bynum made the switch his rookie season and didn't look back. Those skills have only continued to serve him throughout his career, elevating his game and giving him even more to contribute to his team.

"Versatility, leadership," Bynum said when asked what he brings to the Colts. "Everybody sees all the celebrations, everything that goes viral in the media. But a lot of people don't see the work behind it. I pride myself on being one of the hardest workers in the room, putting in so much extra work, being a leader, leading by example, not a super rah-rah guy but somebody that's always going to be consistent. Being in the right spots on the field, but also off the field, being somebody that's really locked in in the meeting room and keeping my head down, focused during the week. It doesn't seem like it because obviously I'm really out there in the media on Sundays, but during the week I'm locked in because I want to be able to earn those moments to be able to have fun on the field on Sundays.

I think that just the way I've come in here, being humble first and foremost, and being able to learn from anybody and everybody but also being able to bring knowledge and the leadership that I have by setting the example the way I work. I think that's my best attribute that I bring here, is that I'll set an example of how we should work and how we need to really just be focused on a day-to-day basis."

Bynum is a very intentional person. He says what he means, means what he says and holds himself to a high standard. He takes his job in the NFL very, very seriously. It just so happens that Bynum's high standards manifest themselves in fun little dances – but even those dances are done with a specific goal behind them: showing a special kind of gratitude.

"We're one of the one percent of people that are blessed enough to have the talent, have the health to be able to play in the NFL," Bynum explained. "So if you're not enjoying every single day, if you're not coming to the building excited to come to work, then this might not be for you, or it might not last for very long, or you might have a miserable time being here."

"You put the work in during the week, and if you can have fun on the weekend, why not," he added. "If you can play well enough to earn a celebration, to earn the fun that you're having, then why not? You worked hard, you put the work in, so why not reward yourself by being able to really celebrate something that you were able to do right."

Bynum also knows how much his celebrations can impact everyone around him – not just his fellow defensive backs, but everyone from special teams to the quarterback to the fans in the stands. It's an extra light, he said, that could end up being the difference between a win and a loss. Take the ball away, win the turnover margin, dance a few times, win the game, dance some more. Simple.

It's not like it takes a lot of time to learn the dances, either.

"You throw it together, tell them an idea, send them some film on it just like we do – same process for football," Bynum said with a grin. "You watch some film, you install it, you do it on the field. Same thing. Watch a few videos, practice it once, and you're good to go. But when you practice a dance that means you have to get a turnover. If we're able to do a lot of dances, that means we demand a lot of turnovers, that means we won a lot of games. I think it's a direct correlation."

So, if Cam Bynum is dancing, good things are happening. And in case it wasn't obvious, Cam Bynum is someone who loves to dance, on a team full of guys eager to join in on the fun.