Another Texas football player came off the board in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday.
Alfred Collins, an athletic defensive lineman for the Longhorns, was picked No. 43 overall to the San Francisco 49ers.
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Collins, a 6-foot-6, 332-pound tackle, played in 63 games over his five seasons but didn’t become a full-time starter until his final campaign in 2024. Last season proved his most productive with 55 total tackles, 5 1/2 tackles for a loss and seven batted balls.
He joins former Georgia edge Mykel Williams, the No. 11 overall pick, in the 49ers’ draft class.
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NFL scouting report for Alfred Collins
A former basketball player at Cedar Creek High School in the in the Bastrop school district, Collins has maintained tremendous agility while growing into an NFL-sized defensive linemen. A lack of consistency prevented Collins from going higher in the draft, but he flashed his tremendous play-making potential several times over the past five years. Those handful of highlights began as a true freshman way back in the 2020 season, when Collins made a leaping, one-handed interception while engaged with a Colorado lineman in the Alamo Bowl. That use of his length and innate athletic ability could define his role, especially early in his NFL career.
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Collins was a 4-start recruit from Cedar Creek High School
He’s the xxx former Texas football player to be drafted this year.
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