Poor grades prevented him from attending college, and he spent the next two years working in the produce section of a local Wal-Mart.
The team won the 2004 NCAA Division II Football Championship, and Collier received All-America honors in 2005, his senior year.
He was suspended for two games and fined by Jaguars head coach Jack Del Rio after being arrested for driving under the influence on November 3.
Collier was in the passenger seat of a car driven by his former Jacksonville teammate Kenny Pettway at the time of the attack; it was later revealed that he had suffered 14 gunshot wounds and was left paralyzed from the waist down.
[4] Earlier in the night Collier and Pettway had been at the Jacksonville nightclub Square One in San Marco, where they met up with two women, as well as fellow Jaguars player Clint Ingram.
[4] The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office believed the shooting was in retaliation for an altercation the two men had had months earlier; Hartsfield had filed a report with the police in April after Collier had punched him in a scuffle at another nightclub.
[5][8] In 2009, one year after the shooting, Collier was unanimously elected to receive the Ed Block Courage Award by his Jacksonville teammates.