Landon Collins with the Washington Football Team, 2021
With the Washington Football Team, 2021. Photo: All-Pro Reels from District of Columbia, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive back, Alabama, 2012–⁠14

Landon Collins

Number
No. 26
Height
6′0″
Hometown
New Orleans, LA
Born
Jan 10, 1994, in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Landon Collins played defensive back at Alabama (2012–⁠14). He was a consensus All‑American in 2014. The New York Giants took Collins in round 2, No. 33 overall in the 2015 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2014
Consensus All-American and First-team All-SEC
Drafted
No. 33
Round 2, 2015 NFL Draft (New York Giants)

Honors

Team titles: National champions, 2012; SEC champions, 2012 and 2014

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonTeamTacklesInterceptionsFumbles
SoloAstTotTFLSacksIntYdsTDFFFR
20121489170000000
20131354157040289120
20141460431034.50314010
Career122671908.505103130

From the college statistics table in Collins’s Wikipedia article (Landon Collins, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLIntPBUFF
2012889170000
2013N135218704262
On file6027874262

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2012Alabama26DB
2013Alabama26DB
2014Alabama26DB6′0″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2014 Alabama 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Sep 20vs.FloridaW 42–⁠211
Oct 11atArkansasW 14–⁠131
Nov 15vs.Mississippi StateW 25–⁠201
2013 Alabama 2 games with an interception on file, 2 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Oct 26vs.TennesseeW 45–⁠101
Jan 2 ✦vs.OklahomaL 31–⁠451
2012 Alabama 0 games with an interception on file, 1 return, 13 yards
DateOpponentResultInt

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2015
Height6′0″
Weight228 lb
Arm length31½″
Hand size9⅜″
Wingspan78″W
40-yard dash4.53 s
10-yard split1.57 sW
Vertical jump35″
Broad jump10′0″
Bench press16 repsW
3-cone drill7.38 s
20-yard shuttle4.33 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

8 seasons, 99 games with a stat; latest team: New York Giants.

Pro Bowls: 3 (2016–⁠18) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2016

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2016; Pro Football Writers first team 2016; Sporting News first team 2016.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2015New York Giants169701
2016New York Giants1611145
2017New York Giants158802
2018New York Giants128800
2019Washington Redskins1510910
2020Washington Football Team74121
2021Washington Football Team137632
2022New York Giants51411
NFL career996241112

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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