He played college football at Texas Christian University, and was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL draft.

[3] His parents divorced,[4] and Kindred was raised by his mother and attended Karen Wagner High School in San Antonio.

[8] At 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) and 180 pounds (82 kg) during the college draft,[3] Kindred was only recruited by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA),[8] which was just beginning to put together a football program.

[9] He ended his college career with 50 games, 235 tackles, eight interceptions, and two touchdowns, and was named a First-team All-Conference selection[8] and an Honorable Mention All-Big 12 by Big 12 Conference coaches.

[13][14] Throughout training camp, Kindred performed well and impressed coaches enough in the preseason to warrant a competition against Jordan Poyer for the starting free safety job.

[16] He made his professional regular season debut in the Browns season-opener at the Philadelphia Eagles and recorded six combined tackles in the 29–10 loss.

[21] He appeared in all 12 games with five starts and finished his rookie season with 46 combined tackles (32 solos) and five passes defensed.

Throughout training camp, Kindred competed against Ibraheim Campbell and Calvin Pryor for the job as the starting strong safety.

[22] He played in the Browns' season-opener Steelers and made three combined tackles and recorded his first career interception off of a pass attempt by Ben Roethlisberger during their 21–18 loss.

The interception occurred in the fourth quarter and stopped a potential scoring drive for the Steelers, who were on the Browns' 29-yard line before the play.