To be fair to Landon Collins, it was never supposed to be this way:
I asked #Bama's Landon Collins if the Buckeyes are as strong as an SEC team and he said, "Well... no."
— Rick Karle (@RickKarle) December 30, 2014
Alabama's victory over Ohio State was supposed to be a mere formality en route to Alabama's eventual coronation. Landon Collins, the world's greatest safety, would then be taken No. 1 overall.
It sounded good in theory, anyway.
Instead, Ezekiel Elliott and Cardale Jones ran roughshod over Collins and Alabama. His draft stock fell all the way to the second round.
Collins believes that not only did that caused him to fall into the second round, it's not true.
"It bothers me, because I know that I'm not a box safety. I can play in the box, but I'm not a box safety," Collins toldThe MMQB's Jenny Vrentas. "When I started hearing that, I told the teams, 'You can look at the film. I'm not a box safety.' "
The ex-Alabama safety cited one interception against Florida on a pass 30 yards downfield to reinforce his claim.
If people turned on the Ohio State game, they would see Collins isn't a box safety by the amount of times he got truck-sticked. (One such example can be seen in the header of this post.)
