{"id":483628,"date":"2024-05-29T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483628"},"modified":"2024-05-29T04:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T08:30:56","slug":"collins-inks-3-year-almost-73-million-dollar-extension-with-texans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/collins-inks-3-year-almost-73-million-dollar-extension-with-texans\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins inks 3-year, almost 73 million dollar extension with Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans and WR Nico Collins have agreed to a 3-season, 72.75 million dollar extension that features 52 million dollars guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>The deal has a maximum value of 75 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Nico (25) is coming off a career-best campaign in which he finished with 80 receptions (ranked 23<sup>rd<\/sup> in the league in the past campaign) for 1,297 yards (ranked 8<sup>th<\/sup>) and 8 TDs (evened for 8<sup>th<\/sup>) in 15 matches.<\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver, picked in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-round of the 2021 NFL Draft, would have become unrestricted free agent after this campaign. In 3 years, the ex-Michigan talent has 150 catches for 2,224 yards and 11 TDs.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal comes after Texans upgraded its receiver room when it exchanged next year\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection to the Bills for WR Stefon Diggs and 2 draft selections at the beginning of April. Stefon is set to become a free agent after the end of the upcoming campaign after Houston voided the final 3 seasons on his deal while providing him with 3.5 million dollar raise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nico Collins in 2023:<\/p>\n<p>80 receptions, 1,297 yards, 8 receiving TDs (all career-highs)<\/p>\n<p>A well-deserved extension to stay in Houston <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lbg_nico7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lbg_nico7<\/a> \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UbLowvy8zZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UbLowvy8zZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1795564981796192452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans and WR Nico Collins have agreed to a 3-season, 72.75 million dollar extension that features 52 million dollars guaranteed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483629,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17162,17324],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[18100,17873,22963],"acf":{"announce":"The wide receiver agreed to a 3-year extension with Houston.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483635,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483628\/revisions\/483635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483628"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483628"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}