Todd Collins has Life Figured Out

According to ProFootballTalk (scroll down to 9-5-07 at 5:00 pm....no permalink), Todd Collins has beaten out Mark Brunell for the #2 quarterback job on the Washington Redskins. Upon seeing that article, I had the same reaction that I have every year about this time: "Wow, Todd Collins is still in the league, and he's still not going to play."

That is one guy who has life figured out. I honest to God think that he has the best job in the world. He never gets hit in practice, because the quarterbacks are hands-off. He never gets hit in games because he never gets in. Therefore, later in life he's probably not going to have the same problem with his knees, shoulder, etc. that a lot of starters have. And because he's been around for so long, his salary just keeps going up and up.

He cleared $800,000 last year and his base salary is $1.25 million this year. Not bad at all for a guy who has thrown 27 passes in the last 10 years and went three years in there without playing in a game.

	Passing Stats
	YEAR	TEAM	G		CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	TD	INT
	1995	BUF	7		14	29	48.3	112	0	1
	1996	BUF	7		55	99	55.6	739	4	5
	1997	BUF	14		215	391	55.0	2367	12	13
	2001	KAN	1		3	4	75.0	40	0	0
	2002	KAN	3		5	6	83.3	73	1	0
	2003	KAN	5		9	12	75.0	74	0	0
	2004	KAN	2		1	5	20.0	42	0	0
	2005	KAN	2		0	0	0.0	0	0	0
	Career		41		302	546	55.3	3447	17	19

I say good on ya, Todd. We should all be so lucky.