{"id":112173,"date":"2025-08-02T05:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112173\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:29:13","slug":"signed-by-cowboys-lael-collins-last-played-in-nfl-regular-season-for-bengals-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112173\/","title":{"rendered":"Signed by Cowboys, La&#8217;el Collins last played in NFL regular season for Bengals in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> offensive lineman La&#8217;el Collins is signing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Cowboys;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> after a workout with the team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/cowboys-to-sign-veteran-ol-la-el-collins-after-successful-workout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to dallascowboys.com&#039;s Tommy Yarrish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to dallascowboys.com&#8217;s Tommy Yarrish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collins, 32, last played in an NFL regular-season game for the Bengals in December 2022, when he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2023\/09\/25\/lael-collins-ex-cincinnati-bengals-tackle-passes-physical\/70965827007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:suffered a knee injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">suffered a knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2023\/09\/12\/lael-collins-released-by-cincinnati-bengals\/70836573007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Released by the Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Released by the Bengals<\/a> in September 2023, Collins signed in 2024 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a>, which moved him from tackle to guard. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2024\/08\/27\/lael-collins-released-buffalo-bills-former-cincinnati-bengals-dallas-cowboys-offensive-tackle\/74973747007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released in August 2024;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">released in August 2024<\/a> by the Bills.<\/p>\n<p>Collins started all 15 games in which he played in his only season in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Collins played 74 games over six NFL seasons with the Cowboys\u00a0to start his career.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"La'el Collins with the Cincinnati Bengals\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/801a2e64e9e01af09e6d68c2b97ee626.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>La&#8217;el Collins with the Cincinnati Bengals<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/08\/02\/lael-collins-signs-with-cowboys-last-played-in-nfl-regular-season-2022-bengals\/85486121007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:La&#039;el Collins signs with Cowboys, last played in NFL for 2022 Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">La&#8217;el Collins signs with Cowboys, last played in NFL for 2022 Bengals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cincinnati Bengals offensive lineman La&#8217;el Collins is signing with the Dallas Cowboys after a workout with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[8995,1582,276,8997,8998,21370,2961,70968,224,5337,1232,56447],"class_list":{"0":"post-112173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-knee-injury","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-lael-collins-2","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-offensive-lineman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114957527756167039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}