FOXBORO – Mystery solved.

On Sept. 29, then Patriots linebacker Jamie Collins strolled out to a team walkthrough with two plastic bags on his hands. To make the scene even more confusing, Collins had gloves on underneath the plastic bags, which were taped around each arm.

On the next day, Sept. 30, Bill Belichick wouldn’t divulge any information.

“That’d be a great question for you to ask Jamie Collins,” Belichick said when asked why his player had plastic bags taped over his hands.

Since Collins wasn't seen in the locker room, no one got a chance to follow up.

As it turns out, Collins was preserving the skin on his hands. On Wednesday, the Providence Journal learned that the linebacker had plastic bags over his hands because he had given himself a manicure. Collins dipped his hands into wax, which is why he had his hands protected for the team’s walkthrough.

This week, the Patriots traded Collins and his presumably soft hands to Cleveland.

It took over a month, but we finally got to the bottom of the case.