Happy Birthday - Nico Collins

 

Nico was born on this day in 1999, making him 27 today.

NFL Debut - September 12th, 2021 (Texans)

Years Active - 

• 2021-present (Texans)

Cards on TCDB - 5105 cards (2026), 4009 cards (2025), 3379 cards (2024), 3109 cards (2023), 1858 cards (2022)

Cards I have - 108 cards (2026), 75 cards (2025), 67 cards (2024), 24 cards (2023), 9 cards (2022)

PC Rank - #31 (#48 overall)

TCDB Rank - #3

Where they came from -

• Sluggos (36 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (31 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (13 cards)
• Sportlots (7 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (4 cards)
• Card Show-Elkhart (3 cards)
• Hollister's (3 cards)
• Man Cave (3 cards)
• Card Show-Peru (2 cards)
• the Sport Stash (2 cards)
• Card Show-Lake Station (1 card)
• Card Show-Lansing (1 card)
• Card Show-Mishawaka (1 card)
• Mom (1 card)

Happy Birthday Nico!

Trading at Work

Fred, at work, brought me some more cards. Anytime he goes to a show, he always picks me up whatever he thinks I need. If I don't need them, I give them back and he puts them in his collection. He's actually given me more cards since I scanned these, including some today but I haven't done anything with them yet so this is all you get.

We'll start off with the White Sox cards. Nothing too flashy up there, a couple more of Colson Montgomery who had a great year last year. Looking forward to see if he follows it up this year. I'm closing in on 50 cards of him but still have a few cards to go.

Here are a couple of the flashy ones. A rookie Kopech, who has done way better since leaving and a sparkle of Eloy who has dropped off the map since leaving.

A Lazer Phoenix of Nico and an older Finest of the elder Howard. Nico's collection is moving right along with 104 cards which is good for 3rd place among my football players behind Funchess and Denard which I don't pick up a whole lot anymore so I imagine it won't be to long before he takes the top spot.

Last but not least, another Hutch card I needed. He keeps playing like he is and they'll keep making more cards of the defensive player. This is my 88th card of him.

I've actually received quite a few cards in the last couple of weeks but I've been lazy at getting them logged and I don't post until I log them. Hopefully this weekend, I'll get caught up. I brought home 28 3 row boxes of baseball to sort last Friday so that's what I worked on all weekend.

Quick trade

Fred brought me a few more cards on Tuesday that he picked up at the last card show that I had posted about.

He gave me 5 and I only had 1 of them which is about par for the course. He usually does a pretty good job at grabbing stuff I don't have.

We'll start with the White Sox cards.

The one he gave me that I already had was the same as the Kopech but of Eloy. Both of these guys are former PC's so I have quite a few of each, all White Sox cards of course. 112 of Kopech and 307 of Eloy. At least one of them has gone on to be decent. I don't think Eloy is even in the league anymore.

He also hit me up with these 2 PC players. A Lazer Nico and a Finest Howard from the 90's. This is my 104th of Nico and my 154th of daddy Howard.

I hadn't picked anything up for him at the show, I usually give him a stack of cards when I sort but I also give him all my penny sleeves and top loaders so he'll get a small box of those from the show.

New show in the area

I hit a local card show that just started. There was a show in the neighboring town but they ended up pushing out the sports cards dealers and it's now a Pokemon, Toys, Comics, Ect show. Which is great for those people who collect that stuff because it's a huge show for them but it does nothing for me. So a guy who ran a fairly big one a couple of times a year, started a new one that is sports cards only. The LCS I sort for was going to be there so I hit it up. They weren't allowing customers in early but I snuck in under his name. I sat and chatted awhile, said hi to a bunch of dealers and customers that I knew from when we set up then hit out and shopped. I was pretty much just looking for Michigan peeps as the Sox are kind of crappy right now so I'm just not feeling it for them.

I did a pretty good job as there was only 1 card that I bought that I already have. The sad thing is Dennis does too and I'm pretty sure I sent it to him so it'll go in John's box. I hate to keep checking TCDB for everything I buy so I guess. I pretty much hit $1 boxes (I paid less than $1) and looked at some stuff on the tables. I ended up buying from 3 different dealers.

Let's get to it. We'll start with the basketball pickups.

I picked up these 3 of Bufkin in the dollar boxes. I actually have a decent sized collection of him considering he's mostly been a G League player. These 3 give me 28 cards of him.

I picked up this Hardaway jr and Robinson in the same boxes. The Topps Chrome Cosmo is unlicensed but is a cool looking card and is numbered to /149. It gives me 127 cards of Tim jr. 

The Prizm of Duncan is the White parallel which is numbered to /175 and is my 51st of him.

I'll start the football with the non PC (yet) players. You'll see a couple of these Gold Ice, I paid a little more for those but they are just a cool colored card on Michigan cards. That is my 4th card of Underwood but definitely the coolest looking one. It's also my 4th card of Keene who is no longer with the program.

I'll do the PC guys in alphabetical order like a did basketball.

I grabbed this Disco parallel of Barner for my 6th card of him.

3 more of Nico who had a good year until he got hurt in the Playoffs. These 3 give me 103.

I managed to find another Corum as well. It's shiny but it's a regular insert. This is my 47th card of Blake.

1 more of Colson who I've been steadily picking up recently. This Silver gives me 10 now.

Donovan has bounced between a couple of practice squads, it would be nice if he could land somewhere where he could get some playing time but I don't think that will happen. This is my 17th card of him.

I now have 6 cards of Mason but these are the 1st 2 in pro uniforms. Michigan uniforms look better.

Also my first pro uniform Grant out of 5 cards but it's a very colorful one at that.

This disco parallel gets me up to double digits of Kris at 10 cards.

These Will Johnson cards are boosting his PC, I've already matched cards this year purchased with the same amount that I purchased last year. These 2 give me 11 cards, all in Michigan uniforms.

This guy was making a name for himself towards the end of the year and in the playoffs so I'm sure he'll have plenty more cards coming. These 3 double the PC to 6 cards. I bought the Prizm from the same guy I bought the gold ice cards so I paid a little more for it.

3 more for the JJ PC. Really hoping he stays healthy next year. These 3 put me at 41 cards for the Ohio killer.

A couple of colored parallels. The gold one is a Portrait Studio which are numbered to /100. Also shows is the Blue Hyper. These 2 give me 19 cards of Mazi.

2 more colored parallels for Wilson which give me 37 cards.

There's the other gold ice card I mentioned. Finishing off the cheaper purchases with a legend. This card gives me 102 of Woodson.

The last stop I made was at a dealer that I'm very familiar with. He's a Michigan guy so we talk Michigan all the time when we were setting up and he always gives me great deals. I went up to his table and stood at the showcase where I had eyeballed a couple of autos I was thinking about. He asked what I was looking at it, I told him these 3 autos but I don't think I have enough on me for all 3. He said we'll see what we can do. They totaled $100 on his price tag so I figured I'd be putting one back as I had already spent $48 and only went to the show with a crisp $100 bill. He said, how about $50, I went perfect, that's pretty much what I have.

My first autos of all 3 and all 3 are in Michigan uniforms. The top 2 are Refractors so all 3 are numbered to /499. I've been trying to get some autos of all my PC's, this purchased definitely helped.

It was easier to drop $98 at a show when I won a speaker at a raffle at work that I sold to another guy for $200 at Christmas. I don't think the wife was extremely happy with it but she won't say anything about it because she knows I don't drop money on cards a lot like I was when I was doing shows.

That catches me up on incoming stuff that I had already saved but I got one more post until I'm fully caught up as Fred from work gave me a few more cards. I'm going to get them scanned and logged today so I'll have that post ready. I typed all the previous last week which I think is going to be my process, type out the posts on the weekend and post throughout the week. Most weeks I don't get anything so it won't be like it has been this week.