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Can La’el Collins And Jonathan Cooper Keep The Cowboys’ Offensive Line Humming?
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2017...ooper-keep-the-cowboys-offensive-line-humming
...La’el Collins
Going into the offseason, most expected La’el Collins to return to the left guard duties he had grown into since replacing Leary in the fifth game of the 2015 season. Yet the word now is that Dallas is going to try him out at the right tackle spot vacated by Doug Free. Collins is excited about the potential move. “Oh, man, it’s awesome actually,” Collins said during the team’s 13th annual Taste of the NFL to tackle childhood hunger. “I actually forgot how good it felt to be out on the edge, to kind of be out there on an island. Right now we’re not doing too much, just kind of working plays against the air. That’s about it. But it feels good.”
Why would the Cowboys consider this move? One reason is that Collins was the best tackle at pass protection his last year in college, according to PFF. Collins excelled in pass protection at left tackle in his final season in college, giving up just four total pressures on 312 pass-blocking snaps, good for a pass-blocking efficiency rating of 99.0.
That kind of play led most draft experts to rank Collins as a sure first-rounder for the 2015 draft, until misfortune left him out of the draft entirely. He certainly has tremendous athleticism for a big man...
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2017...ooper-keep-the-cowboys-offensive-line-humming
...La’el Collins
Going into the offseason, most expected La’el Collins to return to the left guard duties he had grown into since replacing Leary in the fifth game of the 2015 season. Yet the word now is that Dallas is going to try him out at the right tackle spot vacated by Doug Free. Collins is excited about the potential move. “Oh, man, it’s awesome actually,” Collins said during the team’s 13th annual Taste of the NFL to tackle childhood hunger. “I actually forgot how good it felt to be out on the edge, to kind of be out there on an island. Right now we’re not doing too much, just kind of working plays against the air. That’s about it. But it feels good.”
Why would the Cowboys consider this move? One reason is that Collins was the best tackle at pass protection his last year in college, according to PFF. Collins excelled in pass protection at left tackle in his final season in college, giving up just four total pressures on 312 pass-blocking snaps, good for a pass-blocking efficiency rating of 99.0.
That kind of play led most draft experts to rank Collins as a sure first-rounder for the 2015 draft, until misfortune left him out of the draft entirely. He certainly has tremendous athleticism for a big man...
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