Landon Collins’ massive win is a Giants nightmare come to life

Saquon Barkley catches a checkdown from Eli Manning in the right flat … and is leveled by Redskins box safety Landon Collins.

Collins agreeing to a blockbuster, six-year, $84 million deal with $45 million guaranteed from the Redskins is the worst nightmare for Giants fans still up in arms that Dave Gettleman allowed him to walk out the Big Blue door.

Just what Barkley and Manning and Pat Shurmur need: an angry, motivated Collins looking to stick it to their GM, who didn’t think he was worth a one-year, $11.15 million tag.

You will now hear Collins tell us about what an honor it was wearing No. 21 — one of the late Redskin Sean Taylor’s numbers — as a Giant.

“I feel like that’s the armor,” Collins told ESPN two years ago. “I’m wearing his armor. When I put that number on, I’m always representing him in any form or fashion. I try to do my best by it.”

Collins wore 26 at Alabama as a tribute to Taylor, who wore the number at Miami (Fla.). Collins cried when he learned of Taylor’s shooting in 2007.

“I idolized Sean Taylor for his physical play, his passion for the game, you could see it every time he touched the field,” Collins said at the 2015 NFL Combine, “and I like being physical in the box.”

The Redskins don’t have a big-time quarterback (Case Keenum, Colt McCoy). What they do have now is a big-time enforcer on defense and a big-time leader in their locker room.

Gettleman would be the first to tell you this stunning deal borders on fiscal irresponsibility. But $11.15M for one year was not.

That locker that Collins cleaned out in East Rutherford? He’ll need a second locker to stash the cash the Redskins just threw at him.

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