Another Texas football player came off the board in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday.<\/p>\n
Alfred Collins, an athletic defensive lineman for the Longhorns, was picked No. 43 overall to the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n
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More: <\/strong>Texas football: How pickup basketball builds a bond between Trevor Goosby, Arch Manning<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n He joins former Georgia edge Mykel Williams, the No. 11 overall pick, in the 49ers’ draft class.<\/p>\n More: <\/strong>NFL draft predictions: Where should Quinn Ewers land and 4 other Texas Longhorns questions<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Collins was a 4-start recruit from Cedar Creek High School<\/p>\n He’s the xxx former Texas football player to be drafted this year.<\/p>\n Follow the American-Statesman on <\/em>Facebook and <\/em>X for more. Your subscription makes work like this possible. Access <\/em>all of our best content with <\/em>this tremendous offer<\/em>.<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Alfred Collins picked by SF 49ers in NFL draft<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas Longhorn Alfred Collins heard his name called in the NFL draft and he’s headed to the Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1671,1681,1676,1673,391,1677,1679,9,1678,1680,12,1672,1674,1675],"class_list":["post-50963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-alfred-collins","tag-arch-manning","tag-basketball-player","tag-cedar-creek-high-school","tag-colorado","tag-defensive-lineman","tag-mykel-williams","tag-nfl","tag-pickup-basketball","tag-quinn-ewers","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-texas-football","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-trevor-goosby"],"yoast_head":"\nNFL scouting report for Alfred Collins<\/h2>\n