Quote:We should've drafted that guy that was being questioned for murder, that Collins kid the Cowboys got... What a steal.
You're 1000% right. I kept saying during the draft that we should take him. The kid had never been in trouble before and the announcers kept saying he was simply being questioned about his former girlfriend. They had been broken up for quite a while at the time and there seemed to be no animosity between them, so it didn't even make sense for him to be a suspect (which he wasn't). They were questioning everyone who had ever been in her life, as they do in most any murder investigation. Collins was a victim of circumstance and it costs him millions. I felt really bad for him and for us for having passed on him.
Collins' agent did tell everyone not to draft him and if they did there was 0% chance he was going to sign and he would go into the next draft. That said, I would have called his bluff and used a 7th rounder on him and forced him to do that or else.
Quote:Collins' agent did tell everyone not to draft him and if they did there was 0% chance he was going to sign and he would go into the next draft. That said, I would have called his bluff and used a 7th rounder on him and forced him to do that or else.
He didn't say not to draft him at all, he said don't use something like a 4th round pick or later to take him, because he wouldn't sign. I would have been perfectly happy spending our 1st rounder on him. He's who I wanted anyway.
Quote:He didn't say not to draft him at all, he said don't use something like a 4th round pick or later to take him, because he wouldn't sign. I would have been perfectly happy spending our 1st rounder on him. He's who I wanted anyway.
This is correct.
http://www.businessinsider.com/lael-coll...oys-2015-5
I will say I understand teams bypassing him in the draft. Not from a talent perspective. Talent wise, he was clearly a first round caliber talent.
It's just that his name being linked to a murder investigation that soon before the draft had PR nightmare written all over it.
Had a team pulled the trigger on a first round selection for him, and he was named a suspect and actually charged, even the most established GM would have a hard time justifying the pick.
Quote:Im pretty baffled everyone kept passing on him cause around that time the reports coming out of the area where it happened basically said he didnt do it, has nothing to do with it, and wasnt any where near when it happened. Like it was clear he was just an associate being questioned routinely. GMs saw murder and ran away.
Didn't him and his agent say they didn't want to be drafted if it wasn't in the 1st round?
Quote:Didn't him and his agent say they didn't want to be drafted if it wasn't in the 1st round?
They didnt want him drafted anytime after the 3rd round