Over the last few years there has been a good handful of players from LSU who have been questioned about or have been tied to various degrees of drug concerns.
Now you can add former cornerback Jalen Collins to the list of Tigers with some drug use baggage traveling with them, just as the NFL Draft is about to get underway next week.
Albert Breer of the NFL Network reported via Twitter on Friday Collins failed multiple drug tests while in college...1) Changing attitudes towards drugs? LSU CB Jalen Collins is a test case. Had multiple failed tests in college, per sources with 4 teams.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) April 24, 2015
There are two key pieces of information we are missing from this. First, we do not know exactly how many drug tests were reportedly failed by Collins. Second, we do not know when these supposed failed tests occurred. What we do know is Collins appeared in 13 games in each of LSU’s past three seasons, at least according to CFBStats.com.
As noted by Bryan Fischer on NFL.com, this news of failed drug tests does not seem likely to affect the draft stock for Collins in the NFL Draft. Collins still has plenty of talent that NFL teams are going to be interested in acquiring, and sometimes talent prevails over what seem to be minor drug concerns.