(Reuters) - Green Bay Packers Pro Bowl safety Nick Collins, a key part of the team's Super Bowl victory last season, will miss the rest of the National Football League campaign with a neck injury, the team said on Monday.
Collins, a three-times Pro Bowl selection who was taken by the Packers in the second round of the 2005 draft, suffered the injury in Sunday's 30-23 win over the Carolina Panthers.
Collins was carried off the field on a stretcher during the fourth quarter after injuring himself while trying to tackle Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart.
The 28-year-old started in every regular season game in the past three years and had a 37-yard interception return for a touchdown in Green Bay's Super Bowl victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers last season.
(Reporting by Simon Evans in Miami; Editing by Frank Pingue)
