Tag: Chris Collins

Chargers sign Chris Collins, waive Brevin Allen

The Chargers made a new signing to their roster on Tuesday.

The Chargers made a new signing to their roster.

After attending the team’s rookie minicamp, Chris Collins made quite the impression on the staff. He was signed to a full-time roster spot on Tuesday.

Collins primarily played outside linebacker in his final year in college, and that is also his listed position with the Chargers.

In a corresponding move, Brevin Allen was waived. Allen was a 2023 undrafted free agent who played in two games with the team last year after being elevated to the practice squad.

Collins will have stiff competition to make one of the four or five EDGE spots, especially after the team signed Bud Dupree earlier in the week. But he could certainly impress the coaching staff enough to fight for a practice squad spot should he prove himself during camp and the preseason.

Jim Harbaugh and Jesse Minter certainly got a good look at his 6-foot-5 and 255-pound frame in the Big Ten.

Collins racked up 86 tackles and 6.5 sacks during his time at both Minnesota and North Carolina.

Northwestern’s Chris Collins had a beautiful message for star Boo Buie after his final college game

What a heartwarming moment for Northwestern.

There is a cruel but inevitable reality to March Madness: only one team gets to cut the nets.

And only one team gets to really celebrate with its seniors. But this didn’t stop Northwestern’s Chris Collins from honoring one of the more important players in the history of the men’s program in the best way.

As No. 1 Uconn capped off a cruising second-round win over the Wildcats, Collins subbed out star Boo Buie with the intention of giving him a well-deserved curtain call in his last college game. And when Buie met Collins on the sideline, the Northwestern coach shared a heartfelt message about everything they’d been through together:

That is what it’s all about. Finding moments of joy and celebration, even when you’re not the last team standing.

Northwestern’s coach had an all-time ejection last night as Purdue was handed a victory

Northwestern’s coach had an all-time ejection last night as Purdue was handed a victory

Wisconsin basketball was almost given a gift last night…almost. Instead, it appears to be Purdue on the receiving end.

Chris Collins and the surprising Northwestern Wildcats played on the road at Purdue yesterday. The Boilermakers scratched out a 105-96 overtime victory thanks to 30 points and 15 rebounds from Zach Edey, 26 points on 5/7 shooting from three from Lance Jones and, most importantly, a free throw disparity of 46 to eight. Yes, Purdue went 29/46 from the free throw line while Northwestern went only 6/8.

The Boilermakers could have five Zach Edeys on the floor and get hacked every time down the court, but that still wouldn’t explain one team shooting nearly 40 more free throws than the other. Last night was just a terribly officiated basketball game.

Related: Looking ahead to Wisconsin’s 2024 football schedule

For Wisconsin purposes, a Northwestern victory in the contest would’ve given the Badgers a full-game lead atop the Big Ten standings with a tough two-game stretch upcoming — at Nebraska tonight and home against Purdue on Sunday. Instead, Wisconsin and Purdue are technically tied entering the Badgers’ contest tonight at Nebraska.

Regardless of the Big Ten ramifications and Wisconsin fans’ rooting interests, the officiating did give us an all-time ejection from Wildcats head coach Chris Collins:

And a terrific postgame monologue. I’d call it a rant, but it was too calm and well-directed.

I think Collins is in the right here, even if it meant losing his mind at the end of the game. Now Wisconsin will hope it doesn’t experience the same fate when Edey and the Boilermakers visit Madison on Sunday afternoon.

UNC secondary continues with inconsistent play despite win over Florida A&M

The UNC football secondary continued its inconsistent play from a year ago on Saturday and despite the win over Florida A&M, has to improve.

The UNC football program got its 2022 season off on the right note with a 56-24 win over Florida A&M on Saturday night, but it didn’t come without any concern.

Coming into the season, the UNC secondary was a question mark. Not due to the talent level, but due to the injury concerns and the inconsistent play that has plagued that unit for much of the past few years.

Add on top of that a new defensive coordinator and a new defensive backs coach. On Saturday, it definitely showed.

Florida A&M’s quarterback Jeremy Moussa threw for 279 yards and two touchdowns. While the Tar Heels’ secondary did pick off Moussa once, it also gave up a 73.7 completion rate.

While one of the touchdowns from Moussa came on a wheel route to running back AJ Davis — defended by linebacker [autotag]Chris Collins[/autotag] — the other came against defensive back [autotag]Dontae Balfour[/autotag]. It was a 22-yard strike where wideout Trevonte Davis got behind Balfour and Moussa placed a perfect ball.

The Tar Heels finished with three sacks, but overall the defensive pressure wasn’t there much of the night. It was a problem the Tar Heels struggled with last season and thus, contributed to the inconsistent play of the secondary. That and a lack of consistent tackling was something that stood out to UNC head coach Mack Brown.

“We didn’t tackle well early, which is usually the case in your opening ballgame because you have trouble tackling a lot in preseason,” Brown said postgame. “… they were 3-for-3 (in the redzone for touchdowns). So we’ve got to do a better job defensively in the red zone situations.”

Part of the lackluster effort could’ve been contributed to the early exit of talented junior cornerback [autotag]Tony Grimes[/autotag]. Grimes left early in the game with an ‘upper body’ injury and didn’t return.

Balfour led the defensive backs with six tackles while [autotag]Storm Duck[/autotag] had the lone interception on the night. Sophomore [autotag]DeAndre Boykins[/autotag] flashed his potential with four tackles and a fumble recovery.

Overall, regardless of the moving pieces, the secondary definitely delivered a lackluster performance. Moving forward it’s something that needs to be cleaned up and should.

“If you look at it, Storm Duck hadn’t played in a long time. Dontae Balfour hadn’t played. So there are a lot of guys out there that hadn’t played,” Brown said. “Noah Taylor we’d never seen. So three sacks is good. We expect more. And I do think that we’ve got some work to do. But defensive staffs never had a game together. Coaches that hadn’t called defenses for five years. So I will I think we’ll all see a tremendous amount of improvement in a short time. Because I knew they weren’t very happy there in that late second quarter either.”

North Carolina gets another crack to take a step forward with its defensive performance next weekend against a talented Appalachian State team on the road.

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College Basketball: The 10 all-time most annoying Dukies

Who belongs at the top of this list and why?

College basketball officially starts nationwide tonight which means it’s a chance for all of us in this divided nation and world come together in one cause:

Hating Duke basketball.

As a kid I ate it all up.  Mike Krzyzewski was a hero in my 15-year old eyes when Duke won it all in the spring of 2001, but 20 years later I’m grateful to have seen the light since and realized just how insufferable that entire program is.  How Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey developed into such a likable figure after spending eight years on Krzyzewski’s bench is beyond me, but I digress.

With Krzyzewski starting his final season as Duke’s head coach this year let’s honor him by naming the 10 Most Annoying Dukies of All-Time:

WATCH: What Northwestern basketball head coach Chris Collins said about Ohio State after the game

Northwestern head coach Chris Collins discussed the win over Ohio State Saturday and had some high praise for the Buckeyes.

The Ohio State basketball team went on the road and lost a hard-fought, one-point game against the Northwestern Wildcats. It was the type of game the Buckeyes will most likely believe is one that got away. Still, you have to give the Wildcats credit for playing through adversity and making the plays down the stretch to win the game and remain unbeaten in the Big Ten.

Northwestern head coach Chris Collins met with the media after the game to discuss what he saw from his team and Ohio State, and he had some extremely flattering things to say about Chris Holtmann and the personnel of the Buckeyes.

In case you missed any of what he said, we’ve got all of his comments thanks to the YouTube channel of Northwestern Athletics. Watch the below video and listen to Collins talk about the physicality of Ohio State, how seasoned and prepared the Buckeyes are, the respect he has for Holtmann, and much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr5LBo0hGaQ

As a reminder, Ohio State is back in action Wednesday vs. Nebraska at home in Value City Arena.

Ohio State basketball drops close one to Northwestern. Three Things we learned.

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