Nico Collins
| Michigan Wolverines – No. 1 | |
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| Position | Wide receiver |
| Class | Senior |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | March 19, 1999 |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 215 lb (98 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| Bowl games | |
| High school | Clay-Chalkville (Birmingham, AL) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Nico Collins is an American football wide receiver (WR) for the Michigan Wolverines. He was one of three highly-rated WR committed to play football at Michigan in 2017, along with Donovan Peoples-Jones and Tarik Black.
Early years
Collins was a wide receiver at Clay-Chalkville High School in Pinson, Alabama. As a junior, he caught 60 passes for 1,103 yards for 16 touchdowns. This was followed by a senior year with 43 passes for 865 yards and 9 touchdowns.[1] Collins was rated a 4-star recruit and no. 2 WR in Alabama by Scout.com, and a 4-star recruit and no. 5 player in Alabama by 247.com. On February 2, 2017, Collins committed to play football at Michigan over Georgia and Alabama.[2] In a 2019 interview just before the Citrus Bowl game against Alabama, Collins explained his decision to play for Michigan over Alabama, "Mainly, if you're recruited to Alabama, you go to Alabama. But I saw it as an opportunity to be different and I feel that's what I did. I feel like it was best for me."[3]
| Name | Hometown | High school / college | Height | Weight | 40‡ | Commit date |
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| Nico Collins WR |
Birmingham, Alabama | Clay-Chalkville High School | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | 197 lb (89 kg) | 4.50 | Feb 1, 2017 |
Recruiting star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: ESPN:
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| Overall recruiting rankings: Rivals: 120 247Sports: 138 ESPN: 150 | ||||||
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College career
On October 12, 2017, Collins made his first collegiate reception on a 12 yard pass against Rutgers. As a freshman, he appeared in 2 games and had three receptions for 27 yards.
Collins had a breakout season in his sophomore year in 2018. He had a 51-yard catch against Maryland, a 47-yard catch against Penn State and four catches for a career high 91-yard and two touchdowns against Ohio State.[4] He ended the season as the most improved offensive player of the team with 38 receptions for 632 yards and 6 touchdowns.
On November 23, 2019, Collins had a career 146 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns against Indiana. Despite playing along Donovan Peoples-Jones, Tarik Black and Ronnie Bell, Collins was second on the team in receiving yards in 2019, with 729 yards from 37 receptions and had 7 touchdowns.
College statistics
| Season | Team | Conf | G | Receiving | Rushing | Returns | |||||||||
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| Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Ret | Yds | Avg | TD | ||||
| 2017 | Michigan | Big Ten | 2 | 3 | 27 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2018 | Michigan | Big Ten | 13 | 38 | 632 | 16.6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Michigan | Big Ten | 12 | 37 | 729 | 19.7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Career | 27 | 78 | 1,388 | 17.8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| All values from Sports Reference[5] | |||||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Nico Collins - Football". University of Michigan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- ^ Kirshner, Alex (2017-02-01). "4-star WR Collins picks Michigan over Bama, Georgia". SBNation.com. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- ^ Casagr, Michael; Mcasagr, E. | (2019-12-30). "Why star Birmingham WR chose Michigan over Alabama". al. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- ^ "Michigan WR Nico Collins can capitalize on breakout sophomore season". mlive. 2019-02-18. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- ^ "Nico Collins College Stats". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
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