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http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/texas-aggies/20140204-despite-career-ending-injury-texas-am-still-honoring-recruit-collins-scholarship.ece

 

Skyline’s Cedric Collins will take part Wednesday in the photo-ops and ceremonial hoopla that make up national signing day.

But for the speedy, versatile cornerback who committed to Texas A&M in August 2012, before he’d even played his junior season, pride and gratitude will be blended with letting go of what could’ve been.

Collins is getting his scholarship to A&M. But he will never play football again.

 

Numbness in his legs after a hit during the playoffs in 2012 led to the discovery of congenital cervical abnormalities. The condition made continuing to play football too dangerous.

 

 

Collins and his father immediately called David Beaty, A&M’s receivers coach and recruiting coordinator. Beatty told the shocked family to worry about Collins’ health and not about A&M.

Collins and his family made the trip to College Station when several recruits were visiting in January 2013. Sumlin — who can’t speak publicly about prospective athletes until they sign letters of intent — pulled the family into his office, according to Collins Sr.

 

“He told us as long as he was at A&M, the education would be taken care of,” Collins Sr. said. “I can’t express how thankful we are.

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