Josina Anderson of ESPN reports that the Redskins are signing former Giants S Landon Collins.
- According to Ian Rapoport, Collins receives a six-year, $84 million contract from Washington with $45 million guaranteed and paid out over the first three years
Collins is now the highest-paid safety in NFL history at $14 million per year.
Reports had said that Collins was in line to cash in big this offseason after the Giants declined to use their franchise tag on him, but this is more money than most anticipated.
While some wondered if the safety market would really bounce back this year, Collins getting $14 million a year should bode well for Earl Thomas and Tyrann Mathieu.
Collins, 24, is a former second-round pick of the Giants back in 2015. He played out the final year of his four-year, $6.12 million rookie contract that included $4.459 million guaranteed and was testing the open market as an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his NFL career.
In 2018, Collins appeared in 12 games for the Giants and recorded 96 tackles, a forced fumble and four pass defenses.
We had him featured in our Top 100 – 2019 NFL Free Agents list.
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Hey! Landon Collins you will definitely be missed by the Big Blue Fans. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! On your new deal and a WELL DESERVED deal. You were shown by the ‘Skins your true value. And not under sold on your value by Big Blue’s GM Dave Gettleman.
Now on to GM Dave Gettleman. What’s your move now for the secondary? Tyrann Mathieu and Earl Thomas are definitely out of the equation money wise. And Ha Ha Clinton Dix, Tre Boston, Adrian Amos, etcs. All of their price tags escalated after Landon Collins new contract is inked on Wednesday.
As for the linebackers the GMEN are allegedly zeroing in on, two being ZaDarius Smith, Preston Smith and possibly CJ Moseley. All of their price tags just escalated after Kwon Alexander signed with the 49ers for 4yrs/$54M ($13.5 per). That’s $54M for a LB that missed last year with an ACL injury. It’s safe to say that the starting price for these three stud LBs will start at north of $13M per season.
Hey Gettleman! Your $24.7M in cap space is not buying anything of value. And as far as the 2019 NFL DRAFT goes. You lost a 3rd rounder on an injured product in Sam Beal. You lost a 4th for a 5th in the Vernon trade. You got fleeced in both the Harrison and Apple trades this year, reaping a whopping 5th and 4th and 6th.
The Raiders’ deal for Antonio Brown basically knocked a 1st round pick off the table for Beckham. Considering the Steelers received a feeble 2019 3rd and 5th round picks for a player of Brown’s talent 100 plus REC, 1,000 plus yds and 15 TDS.
Now! Gettleman loses a cornerstone foundation player in Landon Collins for a potential compensatory pick in 2020. The GMEN did NOT franchise or transition Collins this offseason. And Collins finished out his rookie contract this year. The question should be! Will there be a compensatory pick in 2020 for letting Collins just walk?
There is a reason the GMEN chose Jerry Reese over Dave Gettleman a few years ago for the GM position. Also! There is a reason the new ownership that took control of the Carolina Panthers a little over a year ago, deemed the only person expendable was Panthers’ GM Dave Gettleman.
Nate Bouda’s buddies Dan Graziano and Jordan Ranaan spoke nothing but the TRUTH in their ESPN pieces about Dave Gettleman and his flaws with rebuilding the GMEN. And it is only going to get worse for 2019 and beyond.