GREEN BAY \u2013 Former Packers All-Pro safety Nick Collins has been named a Class of 2026 inductee into the Black College Football Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
A second-round draft pick (No. 51 overall) by Green Bay in 2005 out of Bethune-Cookman, Collins played seven seasons with the Packers before his career was cut short in 2011 due to a neck injury.<\/p>\n
Collins was named second-team All-Pro and a Pro Bowler three straight years (2008-10), recording 17 of his 21 career interceptions over those three seasons. He returned three INTs for TDs in 2008 and then capped his historic three-year run with a pick-six off Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger in Super Bowl XLV to help the Packers capture the franchise’s 13th world championship.<\/p>\n
Collins was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2016 and is also a member of the Bethune-Cookman Athletics Hall of Fame. He has spent the past few years as cornerbacks coach at Bethune-Cookman.<\/p>\n
He was former Packers general manager Ted Thompson’s second draft pick during his tenure as GM, following the selection of QB Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n
Collins is joined in the Black College Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 by former Jaguars star receiver Jimmy Smith (Jackson State); former NFL linebacker and current Alabama State head coach Eddie Robinson Jr.; former NFL cornerback and two-time Super Bowl champion with the Patriots, Tyrone Poole (Fort Valley State); legendary Florida A&M football coach Rudy Hubbard; and veteran NFL Network reporter and analyst Steve Wyche (Howard).<\/p>\n
The group will be officially honored at the 17th annual Black College Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 6 in Atlanta. Inductees will also be recognized during halftime of the 5th annual Allstate HBCU Legacy Bowl on Feb. 21 in New Orleans, airing live on NFL Network at 3 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY \u2013 Former Packers All-Pro safety Nick Collins has been named a Class of 2026 inductee into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,34,25766,507,506,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-682319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-greenbay","12":"tag-greenbaypackers","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-news-hall-of-fame","15":"tag-news-national-feature","16":"tag-news-stories","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115906059739110685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}