NICK COLLINS RUMORS & GOSSIP

Free Agent FS Nick Collins Still Considering Playing In The NFL

While Nick Collins’ career with the Green Bay Packers is over, the three-time Pro Bowl safety is still considering his options and deciding whether or not to continue his NFL career, agent Alan Herman said Thursday. The Packers released Collins last Friday and he could decide to retire from football, or he could try to pursue playing with another club. At the NFL Draft on Saturday...
Via GridironFans.com  |  29 days ago

Green Bay Packers Release Safety Nick Collins

Nick Collins has been released by the Packers The Green Bay Packers have released free safety Nick Collins today according to a report from Jason Wilde at ESPN-Milwaukee.  This decision has been hanging around us all since Collins saw his season end just two games in after suffering a severe neck injury against the Carolina Panthers. Collins was one of the most beloved Packers on...
Via Jersey Al's Packers Blog  |  April 25, 2012

Green Bay Packers Releasing Nick Collins Understandable But Wrong

The Green Bay Packers released safety Nick Collins Wednesday morning in a move that has shocked fans. Head coach Mike McCarthy and the Packers management made it perfectly clear they did not feel comfortable with Collins playing football again after he suffered a brutal neck injury last September in Week 2 against the Carolina Panthers. Collins was injured on a play involving Carolina...
Via Rant Sports  |  April 25, 2012

Nick Collins released by The Green Bay Packers

Great memory, great safety. You will be missed. The Green Bay Packers have released Nick Collins. It appears that, this morning, The Green Bay Packers have informed Nick Collins and his agent that he will be released. Looks like Mike McCarthy and Teddy T don’t want to risk having Collins being permanently injured while on their watch. Nick Collins was a great safety. He had...
Via Losers Bracket  |  April 25, 2012

Report: Packers to release injured Collins

GREEN BAY, Wis. If Nick Collins wants to return to football, it won't be for the Green Bay Packers. Collins' agent, Alan Herman, confirmed to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that the Packers will release the three-time Pro Bowl safety, who underwent a single-level cervical fusion last September. In Week 2 of last season, with the Packers playing in Carolina...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin  |  April 25, 2012

Thompson: Still no determination on Collins

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The future of Packers safety Nick Collins is still unknown. The serious neck injury suffered by Collins in Week 2 of last season -- which later required single-fusion neck surgery -- has created doubt about whether the 28-year-old's football career will ever be able to continue. "We don't have any determination at this point," Packers general...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin  |  April 19, 2012

If Nick Collins Wants to Play, Let Him Play

Nick Collins after suffering a neck injury versus the Panthers Tom Silverstein of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote yesterday about how Green Bay Packers’ safety Nick Collins hopes that he’ll be able to return for the 2012 season.  While the ultimate decision will be made by Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson regarding Collins’ future, the basic fact still remains...
Via Jersey Al's Packers Blog  |  April 12, 2012

Packers Beer Mug Perspective: The Future of Nick Collins

Today is the day – the day when Green Bay Packers safety Nick Collins should receive his medical recommendation on whether he can play again the NFL.  After going through a battery of tests in New York this past week, he will finally have the information to start making a decision about his future. It was Week 2 of last season when Packers fans held their breath as Nick Collins...
Via Jersey Al's Packers Blog  |  April 02, 2012

Nick Collins: 2011 Green Bay Packers Evaluation and Report Card

Nick Collins 1) Introduction: Over the last two and half decades, the number 36 has been kind to the safety position in Green Bay. LeRoy Butler was an All-Pro wearing the number during the Packers’ run in the 1990′s, and Nick Collins has now established himself as one of the NFL’s top game-breakers at the position with the same two digits. In six seasons leading...
Via Jersey Al's Packers Blog  |  February 10, 2012

Collins' career hinges on March appointment

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Nick Collins will find out in March whether he is able to continue his NFL career or will be forced into early retirement. The 28-year-old safety for the Green Bay Packers, who suffered a severe neck injury in Week 2 on an attempted tackle, had spinal fusion surgery in late September and missed the remainder of this season. Collins had been named to the Pro Bowl...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin  |  January 20, 2012
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