Todd Collins (quarterback)
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| Todd Collins | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | November 5, 1971 (age 35) |
| Place of birth |  Walpole, MA |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| College | Michigan |
| NFL Draft | 1995 / Round 2/ Pick 45 |
| Statistics | |
| Team(s) | |
| 1995-1997 1998-2005 2006-current |
Buffalo Bills Kansas City Chiefs Washington Redskins |
Todd Collins (born November 5, 1971 in Walpole, Massachusetts) is an American football player who currently is a backup quarterback for the Washington Redskins.
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[edit] High School career
Collins earned SuperPrep All-America honors and was named New England Player of the Year by the Boston Globe as a senior at Walpole High School, located just several miles from the home of the New England Patriots in Foxboro, Massachusetts. As an outstanding all-around athlete, he led his prep football team to a state finals appearance as a senior and guided the basketball squad to the state semifinals his junior season. He also had a 10-0 record as a junior pitcher and averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds a game on the basketball squad.
[edit] College career
Collins attended the University of Michigan. He was redshirted as a freshman in 1990. He completed one of two passes in the Rose Bowl as a freshman in 1991 after netting 15 completions on 24 attempts for 135 during the regular season. Collins started two games as a sophomore in 1992 when he completed 66 of 101 passes for 693 yards with seven scores and three interceptions. As an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention and Academic All-Big 10 as a junior in 1993, he led the squad to a Hall of Fame Bowl berth. His best collegiate season came that junior year when he hit on 189 of 296 attempts for 2,509 yards with 17 touchdowns and just seven interceptions. In his senior season (1994), he connected on 186 of 288 attempts for 2,518 yards with 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions en route to a Holiday Bowl win over Colorado State. Collins' collegiate passing totals read 457 completions on 711 attempts for 5,858 yards with 37 touchdowns and 20 interceptions. Collins and Michigan's 1994 squad are most remembered for losing to the University of Colorado on Kordell Stewart's last second play known as Rocket Left.
[edit] College records
- Holds the record for the best career completion percentage (64.28%) in Michigan history; this is also the third best mark in Big Ten Conference history.
- Ranks third in Michigan annals in passing efficiency (145.0) behind Elvis Grbac (148.1) and Jim Harbaugh (145.6). His mark is also fifth in conference history.
- Finished his career at Michigan second only to Grbac in pass attempts, completions, and yards. He now ranks fourth in those three categories having since been pased by John Navarre and Chad Henne.
- Passed for at least 200 yards in 14 games, the most of any player in Wolverines history to that point. Collins now ranks fourth in games with 200+ passing yards behind Navarre (28), Henne (21), and Tom Brady (15).
[edit] NFL career
Collins was selected in the 1995 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. In 1995, he earned the Bills backup job, playing in seven games with one start. That season, he hit on 14 of 29 attempts for 112 yards with one interception. In 1996, Collins was the number two Bills QB behind Jim Kelly, and saw action in seven games (three starts), completing 55 of 99 attempts (55.6%) with four touchdowns and five interceptions. In 1997, He won the Bills starting job at QB after beating out Alex Van Pelt and Billy Joe Hobert in training camp and saw duty in 14 games (13 starts) where he completed 215 of 391 passes (55.0%), good for 2,367 yards with 12 touchdowns, and 13 interceptions. Collins then moved to the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998, where he did not see any regular season game action the first three seasons. Between 2001 and 2005, he was listed as the Chiefs’ backup QB in all the games, seeing action in 12 games.
On March 14, 2006, Collins was signed by the Washington Redskins to a 2-year, $2.5 million contract.
| Preceded by Elvis Grbac |
Michigan Wolverines Starting Quarterbacks 1993 – 1994 |
Succeeded by Scott Dreisbach |
| Preceded by Jim Kelly |
Buffalo Bills Starting Quarterbacks 1997 |
Succeeded by Doug Flutie |
| Preceded by Warren Moon |
Kansas City Chiefs 2nd String Quarterback 2001-2005 |
Succeeded by Damon Huard |
