He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the Colts in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft.

[1] His father is a lawyer and businessman who captained the Wittenberg University basketball team in the late 1980s[2] and was a former president of the Inverness Club in 2019.

[5] Like his father, Mewhort attended St. John's Jesuit High School[1] where in 2009 he was ranked the 212th overall recruiting prospect and the second best center in the nation.

[6] He was a member of the U.S. team that won the 2009 IFAF Junior World Championship and played in the Under Armour All-America Game the same year.

[24][25] He completed his MBA at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University in 2023[26] through a National Football League Players Association program whilst working in real estate in Ohio.