Eli Manning completed his 27th fourth-quarter comeback — 32 if you count the postseason, which you should — with his last-second touchdown pass to Larry Donnell to overtake the 49ers. From the sideline, rookie safety Landon Collins looked on.
“I saw him do it lots of times,’’ Collins said.
Yeah, on TV. Collins, 21, was not even a teenager when Manning was first coming up big in the clutch late in NFL games.
Seeing it up close? “Oh man, it’s amazing,’’ Collins said.
Amazing his teammates is great theater, but the key here is for Manning to elevate those around him — most were in college, high school or, in the case of Collins, barely out of elementary school when the majority of those comebacks were fashioned.