He needs to stay healthy. Even if he does find his way into the starting lineup for whatever reason, Redman lacks the skills to be anything more than a weak flex option. Reece might be worth a look in PPR leagues. Per the coaching staff, Starks has been a different player this summer. Eagle defenders were slow and took bad angles all night. Blount is competing with Brandon Bolden to be the early-down backup to Stevan Ridley, so whoever wins the battle would hold a bit of fantasy value.
Bolden is more talented, but Blount seems to have a decent chance to overtake him. If he can avoid the lower-leg injuries that have hampered him the past couple seasons, Nicks has all the ability in the world to be a WR1.
A year after leading the league in touchdowns, year-old Jones should flirt with double-digit scores again. Jones will aim to have another big year to parlay it into one final payday entering his thirties.
He has all of the physical tools to be a true No. Tate finally has the offense down, and is letting his natural abilities take over. He still plays in the most run-heavy offense in the league, but Tate is a legit every-week WR3 candidate.
Vernon Davis is going to take that title, and it could be by a large margin. Sanders is one of our favorite mid- to late-round receiver gems. Roberts will likely be No.
He still has the No. He tweaked his knee and has struggled with drops. Meanwhile, T. Look for Hilton to supplant Heyward-Bey in the starting lineup sooner rather than later, while DHB will be nothing more than a situational deep threat. Treat him as a WR4. Austin Collie. History Talk 0. Austin Collie px Collie preparing for a game against Denver in Retrieved June 13, February 3, Archived from the original on February 9, Retrieved February 9, Sacramento Bee.
Retrieved November 25, August 15, January 2, Retrieved November 7, USA Today. User Email Valid email format only. Forgot password? Not a member yet? Create Account. Toggle navigation. Sign in. Austin Collie. Herndon, VA. Perfect Game Player Rating System In order to receive a PG Grade, players must attend a Showcase to complete their full evaluation.
US9 Prospects 15u. Team Last Played is the team with which the player last attended a PG tournament. I remember coming to on the stretcher and being confused, as though I was in a dream. I called my wife from the locker room and remember telling her I was fine and that everything was OK.
I thought I was making sense, but when I got home, she told me she didn't even know what I was saying. I was speaking gibberish. Unfortunately, that was just the beginning of my nightmare sophomore season in the NFL. For obvious reasons, fans seem to remember that concussion in Philadelphia the most, but after passing concussion protocol and returning two weeks later, I suffered a setback when I slammed my head on the turf in New England.
And I was knocked out yet again a month after that in a game against Jacksonville, ending my season and forever altering the course of my NFL career.
My concussions were visually devastating—they didn't look good. Combine that with the public's perception of concussions, and it was no surprise that no matter where I went after that stretch, I was constantly being reminded of my head injuries, whether it was people asking me how my head was or asking what I'd do about it.
I had people texting me, tweeting me, emailing me about my head. I returned in , playing in all 16 games, but after I suffered another concussion in the preseason, a lot of people pushed for me to retire.
All I ever heard from the public and the media was, "Collie will have dementia by the time he's 40," and, "He should be taking his family into mind. Part of me was very grateful that everyone was concerned for my health. But at the same time, the other part of me was extremely annoyed. Because ultimately, the decision was my family's and mine to make, and it's hard to let football go. At that time, I was reaching my dreams.
I had gone to the Super Bowl in , and now I was proving that I could hang with some of the best from a statistical standpoint. I was looking at what could have possibly been a Pro Bowl season.
And what people don't get is when you've pictured those accomplishments in your mind since you were eight years old, lying in bed, and it's finally happening, and everything's happening the way you'd imagined it, it's extremely hard to say, "Oh, I've got a head injury, and there's no definitive evidence it'll affect me, but I should stop playing. The reality of reaching the NFL is that while it's important to have things—family or church, for example—that are higher on the priority list, football becomes who you are.
When you've been at it for so long, it becomes your life. So I was never going to give all that up because of public pressure, especially considering I had doctors and neuropsychologists telling me I was fine. See, while I was dealing with that unfortunate spate of concussions, I took a very proactive approach.
Knowing that a standard MRI only showed structural damage, I wanted tangible evidence that everything was OK with my brain from a functional standpoint. That's why I was checked out by Dr. Alina Fong—a neuropsychologist with a background in neuroradiology—and Dr.
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