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3. La’el Collins is winning a bet. Sometimes, things just work themselves out. Two years ago, LSU tackle prospect La’el Collins landed in the middle of a murder investigation during draft week, taking him from borderline first-rounder to toxic overnight. He was exonerated, and now Collins is working on switching over to right tackle after emerging as a rock for the Cowboys at left guard before he was hurt last year. Moreover, he’s doing it with a chance to cash in, and that’s thanks to the strategy he and his agents used in 2015.
After Collins slipped through the first round, his agents worked to get word out through the media that if he wasn’t drafted that Friday night, during the second or third round, and some team took him that Saturday, in the fourth or fifth or sixth or seventh round, then he’d refuse to sign and re-enter the draft in 2016. The idea was to ensure Collins would go undrafted, because then he could pick his team and their analysis showed that he could make up for what he’d lost that way. How?
Drafted players have to sign four-year deals, and can’t sign long-term deals until after they’ve been in the league for three years. Conversely, college free agents can negotiate three-year deals, are eligible to do long-term deals after just two seasons, and can make up money on the back end as restricted free agents. The research showed that if Collins received the first-round tender in 2018, he’d wind up with a four-year total of about $6.7 million. If he was tendered at the second-round level, his four-year take home would be around $5.5 million. By comparison, Giants safety Landon Collins, the 33rd pick in the 2015 draft, did a four-year deal worth $6.13 million, with a chance to make an extra couple hundred thousand off the performance pool. Falcons CB Jalen Collins, the 42nd pick in that draft, did a four-year, $5.4 million deal.
So of all three Collins players—confusing, I know—Jalen and Landon have to wait until next January to do extensions, while La’El can do one today. So two years after being in a pretty bad spot, if La’El Collins has a strong 2017, he’ll wind up benefitting big-time as a result of the way he and the people around him reacted to it.
3. La’el Collins is winning a bet. Sometimes, things just work themselves out. Two years ago, LSU tackle prospect La’el Collins landed in the middle of a murder investigation during draft week, taking him from borderline first-rounder to toxic overnight. He was exonerated, and now Collins is working on switching over to right tackle after emerging as a rock for the Cowboys at left guard before he was hurt last year. Moreover, he’s doing it with a chance to cash in, and that’s thanks to the strategy he and his agents used in 2015.
After Collins slipped through the first round, his agents worked to get word out through the media that if he wasn’t drafted that Friday night, during the second or third round, and some team took him that Saturday, in the fourth or fifth or sixth or seventh round, then he’d refuse to sign and re-enter the draft in 2016. The idea was to ensure Collins would go undrafted, because then he could pick his team and their analysis showed that he could make up for what he’d lost that way. How?
Drafted players have to sign four-year deals, and can’t sign long-term deals until after they’ve been in the league for three years. Conversely, college free agents can negotiate three-year deals, are eligible to do long-term deals after just two seasons, and can make up money on the back end as restricted free agents. The research showed that if Collins received the first-round tender in 2018, he’d wind up with a four-year total of about $6.7 million. If he was tendered at the second-round level, his four-year take home would be around $5.5 million. By comparison, Giants safety Landon Collins, the 33rd pick in the 2015 draft, did a four-year deal worth $6.13 million, with a chance to make an extra couple hundred thousand off the performance pool. Falcons CB Jalen Collins, the 42nd pick in that draft, did a four-year, $5.4 million deal.
So of all three Collins players—confusing, I know—Jalen and Landon have to wait until next January to do extensions, while La’El can do one today. So two years after being in a pretty bad spot, if La’El Collins has a strong 2017, he’ll wind up benefitting big-time as a result of the way he and the people around him reacted to it.
