Top 12 standouts from Senior Bowl '19

#6 L.J. Collier, Edge, TCU

I didn’t have this guy on my radar too much before Senior Bowl practice kicked off. He started popping when I watched his partner in crime Ben Banogu in their bowl game versus Kansas State when Collier had his best career game at TCU with a couple of sacks and four TFLs. However, it wasn’t until last week that I really looked at this kid as a true threat off the edge at the next level.

Collier is a twitched-up athlete, who explodes off the line, can convert that speed to power and use the lean of opponents against them. He just jumped off the screen constantly in one-on-ones, flat out running over the Charleston guard on day two and as he might have been defeated once by Boston College’s Chris Lindstrom, he came right back to push him back into the quarterback’s lap the very next rep.

Altogether I thought he had one heck of a week coming off the edge, having a way of getting home late in reps with his hands. In team drills, he sniffed out some bootlegs and stayed home to force throws into the dirt and he finished strong with a couple of pressures during the game.

When they faced the South team the coaches lined Collier up inside a bit and he beat the guards with quickness. He also absolutely killed South Carolina’s left tackle Dennis Daley on a quick up-and-under off the line later on.