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If NFL teams are going to wait on LSU tackle La’el Collins to meet with the police to feel comfortable with adding him to their roster, they’re going to have to wait to sign him as a free agent after the draft.

Albert Breer of NFL Media reports that Baton Rouge Police Department Colonel Don Coppola told him that a police interview with Collins regarding the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend Brittany Mills will be scheduled for sometime after the draft.

Breer also reports that he’s spoken to representatives of several teams who said they won’t touch Collins in the draft as a result of the uncertainty about his involvement in the case. That meshes with what we reported earlier on Thursday about the increasing feeling in league circles that Collins is neither draftable nor employable until he’s exonerated.

An argument could be made that a team could throw a third day pick on Collins in hopes of stealing a first-round talent while planning to just cut him if it turns out he did break the law. Given how much scrutiny is paid to teams whose players get in trouble years after being drafted, though, it’s easy to understand why teams wouldn’t be rushing to associate themselves with a player connected to a murder investigation days before the draft.