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| Born | November 19, 1976 Fort Knox, Kentucky |
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| Year(s) | 1999–1999 | ||
| NFL Draft | 1999 / Round: 5 / Pick: 134 | ||
| College | LSU McNeese State |
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| Rushing att-yards | 131-414 | ||
| Receptions-yards | 6-32 | ||
| Touchdowns | 2 | ||
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Cecil J. P. "The Diesel" Collins (born November 19, 1976 in Fort Knox, Kentucky) is a former American football running back for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He is currently incarcerated for burglary.
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Collins attended Leesville High School in Leesville, Louisiana and amassed 99 touchdowns and 7,833 yards over his high school football career including 3079 yards during his senior season. Leesville was the 4A state runner-up that year and Cecil was selected as Louisiana's very first "Mr. Football".
Collin's struggles began during his senior season at Leesville when the NCAA Clearinghouse declared that he would be required to retake his ACT Test. Cecil had taken the test during his Junior year and had not scored well enough to qualify for Division I schools. At the beginning of his Senior season he retook the exam and improved five points giving him an acceptable score. After reviewing his case however, the NCAA Clearinghouse notified his family that this improvement was unusual and that it would be necessary for him to retest. When the Clearinghouse requires this, it is within the student's rights to ask for special considerations such as being allowed to take the test in private, have unlimited time, or even take the test orally. These provisions are not something the family would be aware of, but being heavily recruited by and having signed with LSU, then coached by Gerry DiNardo, it would be expected that LSU might inform him of these special accommodations. They did not. On his third attempt Collins failed to make the required score by one point and was forced to sit out his first year at LSU.
After sitting out his freshman year he began his football career at LSU in less than grand fashion, sitting out the first game of the season serving a suspension for breaking team rules. After this ignoble beginning however Collins went out and compiled 596 yards in his first four games before breaking his leg versus Vanderbilt.
He was kicked off of the LSU squad before the start of his second season after being twice arrested for illegally entering dwellings. He claimed he was sleepwalking and had no recollection of entering the girls' rooms. He received probation as his sentence and made a second attempt at college football at Division I-AA (FCS) McNeese State University but violated his probation when he failed a drug screen and was kicked off of the McNeese squad as well.
Collins was selected as the first pick in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Dolphins out of McNeese State University by then coach-general manager Jimmy Johnson. He appeared in eight games in the 1999 season, accumulating 414 yards and two touchdowns.
On December 16, 1999, Collins committed burglary in Palm Trace Landings, an apartment complex in Davie, Florida. He admits he broke into the home of a married woman that he knew from the gym, but said he only wanted to watch her sleep. After conviction on the charge, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Collins was married in 2006, and has a daughter from a previous relationship.
Collins, Florida Department of Corrections# 199596, is located in the Desoto Annex facility. He entered prison on March 27, 2001. As of 2011 his current release date is February 28, 2014.[1]
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