Is there/can there be a way to tell what color mods started at?

sign up for swgoh.gg. equip all your leveled mods. Sync your account.

Then go to http://apps.crouchingrancor.com/Mods/Manager and click on rating.

Mods will have a higher rating if they started out as something other than grey.

Though this feature is somewhat limited now due to high data usage.

yeah crouching rancor hasn't worked for months for me ("swgoh.gg rate limit has been reached"), but ty. That site was great

https://swgoh.gg/u/gifafi/

fwiw

If they are leveled up the only thing that matters is the final stats it really makes no difference what they started as if you really wanna know look at lots of level one colored mods to see what the range is for upgrades and go from there for an example
If you have a lvl 15 mod with secondaries as follows

Defense 8 did not upgrade
Offense 96 upgraded twice
Speed 5 did not upgrade
Health 254 did not upgrade

So this would have been a blue mod showing defense and offense
Level 3 upgraded offense
Level 6 upgraded offense
Level 9 gained speed
Level 12 gained health

Doesn't answer the op but for mod management I'm now using swgohmods.com.

There is no in game or out of game way that I know of to know what color mods started as before being leveled so I gave him an example to help him figure it out