Sam Collins

Sam Collins played 168 senior AFL games chiefly for Gold Coast, as well as Fremantle between 2016 and 2026, lining up most often as a defender. On 23-0, Sam Collins's career spans 2 decades, from the 2010s to the 2020s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Sam Collins at a peak of 81 out of 100, reached in the 2020s. That figure measures Sam Collins only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 2020s defender can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Sam Collins polled 4 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Sam Collins with a best season of 283 disposals in 2024 and a top Brownlow year of 2 votes in 2021. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.