re: Mike Mayock's updated position rankings for Draft (SIAP)

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I always felt "starter" on our defense is kind of a bullshite term.

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not at corner

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Players rotate in and out depending on the package and team we play. Just like our base defense under chavis was a 4-3, there were some games the majority of snaps didn't have 3 linebackers on the field.

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Yeah but he wasn't the guaranteed third CB even. We would slide Mills down, and Dwayne Thomas got a ton of snaps until he got hurt this season.

He was a contributor, but he didn't start a full season.

Agree with you and a couple other posters. Collins has been a good player, and I thought he was very good last year.

I think a few plays here and there from his first couple years have stuck in people's minds. But every DB gets burned. White got burned last year, Mo Claiborne and PP both got burned at times, etc. Perhaps the one thing he lacks/lacked was enough highlight reel plays & interceptions to offset the stigma of the few bad plays he gave up. That, and there's always some 5 star in the defensive backfield who is the fan favorite, which isn't bad, but tends to make Collins' good work go a little more un-noticed.

And if Collins was as good at sticking to his receiver as GFunk suggests, then that's especially impressive when considering how little pressure we put on QBs the past couple of years... but that's a topic for another thread.