{"id":88953,"date":"2022-10-06T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/landon-collins-signing-with-giants-in-reunion\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:17:57","slug":"landon-collins-signing-with-giants-in-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/landon-collins-signing-with-giants-in-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Landon Collins signing with Giants in reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Former Giants defensive captain Landon Collins is re-signing with the team after three seasons away, The Post confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Collins returns to a very different role than the one he left, as a three-time Pro Bowl safety who inked a then-record for his position six-year, $84 million free-agent contract with the Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Collins will re-sign to the practice squad, where he can be elevated twice on game days before he needs to be signed to the 53-man roster.  It&#8217;s a move the Giants have used with several other veterans hungry for an opportunity to get back in the NFL already this season.<\/p>\n<p>The former second-round draft pick won&#8217;t find many former teammates in the locker room, either.  Only Sterling Shepard (injured reserve), Saquon Barkley and Davis Webb (who left and returned) remain from Collins&#8217; first stint with the Giants, including when he was an NFL Defensive Player of the Year candidate during the run to the 2016 playoffs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Landon Collins (21) celebrating with Giants teammates on Oct.  28, 2018.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/landon-collins-giants.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Landon Collins runs with the ball after an interception for the Washington Football Team on Dec.  21, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-24146092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/landon-collins-giants.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/landon-collins-giants.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/landon-collins-giants.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Landon Collins runs with the ball after an interception for the Washington Football Team on Dec.  21, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Collins spoke out against former Giants general manager Dave Gettleman many times since leaving East Rutherford, but it appears all that animosity is gone now that Gettleman is no longer in the building.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants defense now is unquestionably led by third-year pro Xavier McKinney, a Collins doppelganger in that he also is a second-round draft pick safety from Alabama.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Giants defensive captain Landon Collins is re-signing with the team after three seasons away, The Post confirmed. Collins returns to a very different role than the one he left, as a three-time Pro Bowl safety who inked a then-record for his position six-year, $84 million free-agent contract with the Commanders. Collins will re-sign to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/landon-collins-signing-with-giants-in-reunion\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Landon Collins signing with Giants in reunion<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[29376,9026,423,307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88994,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/landon-collins-signing-giants-re-uniting-with-former-pro-bowl-safety\/","url_meta":{"origin":88953,"position":0},"title":"Landon Collins signing: Giants re-uniting with former Pro Bowl safety","date":"October 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Landon Collins is returning to the New York Giants, according to multiple reports. 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