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CARD: Panini Donruss 2021
ACQUIRED: Ebay, 2024
CAREER SNAPSHOT:
- Nico Collins played WR at Michigan from 2017-20.
- He opted out of his senior season due to COVID, so he finished with a modest 78 receptions for 1388 yards and 13 TDs over his college career.
- With strong connections to the Texans through their coaching staff, Nico was a 3rd round pick of the franchise in 2021.
- The team was going through… a lot at the time, not only at the quarterback position, but also in the coaching staff.
- He finished both his rookie and sophomore campaign with similarly middling results.
- In ’21 he started 8 games and had 33 receptions for 446 yards and a TD.
- In ’22 he started 7 games and had 37 receptions for 481 yards and 2 TDs.
- It’d be in 2023 that Nico had a breakout year, as he and rookie QB CJ Stroud paired together to be a dangerous combination.
- Collins finished the ’23 campaign with career highs in all categories, as well as more than doubled his production across the board.
- He finished 2023 with 80 receptions for 1297 yards, a 75 long, and 8 TDs.
NOTES:
The prices have been fluttering down on certified autographs recently, and with the emergence of Nico I wanted to get a few of his long at last into the collection since we just don’t get much love up here in Central Texas. I had originally chosen a Luminance card, but the seller couldn’t find it, so he offered to make it right by sending me the Donruss instead, which I begrudgingly accepted.