The Cowboys have adjusted offensive lineman La’el Collins‘ contract in order to create additional cap space, according to Field Yates of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
Collins will see $500K of his salary for the 2018 season converted into a signing bonus, allowing Dallas to spread that amount out over the next two years. It’s a small deal, and one that will only create $250K in extra cap room. But it’s a transaction that makes sense for the Cowboys, who rank in the bottom half of the NFL with about $18.6MM in reserves.
For Dallas, the move doesn’t carry much additional risk, as Collins is a near certainty to be on the team’s roster through 2019. Collins, 24, was projected as a first-round pick in the 2015 draft before his being linked to a murder investigation — one in which he was fully cleared — caused his stock to tumble. He eventually latched with the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent, and inked an extension last summer that will keep him under contract through 2019.
Collins played guard during his first two seasons in the NFL, but was transferred back to his natural tackle position following Doug Free‘s retirement prior to the 2017 campaign. Last year, Pro Football Focus graded Collins as the No. 56 tackle among 83 qualifiers.
It’s ridiculous they wouldn’t let Collins into the supplemental draft, when the only thing he did was know someone that got killed, and yet they give druggies the chance at million dollar rookie contracts. The police even went out of their way to say that he was not a suspect long before the draft even happened.
you talking about JG12?
And every other prospect that with drug issues that got put into the supplemental draft. Which is most of them.
really? she died 6 days before the draft. They were days into a STILL unsolved investigation. Just b/c he wasn’t a suspect doesn’t mean there still weren’t any problems. How did the police say LONG before the draft happened, that he wasn’t a suspect? that and his agent didn’t help by threatening anyone who tried to draft him after the third round, with him sitting out the season.
He needs to play better..