Braylon Edwards

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Braylon Edwards
Cleveland Browns
Career information
College:Michigan
NFL draft:2005 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2007
Receptions:173
Recieving Yards:2,685
Touchdowns:25

Braylon Jamel Edwards (born on February 21, 1983 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League.

His father, Stan Edwards, played football at the University of Michigan (1977-1981) and with the Houston Oilers (1982-1986) and Detroit Lions (1987).

College career

Edwards graduated of Bishop Gallagher High School in Template:City-state after transferring from Martin Luther King High School in Template:City-state.[1] Edwards followed his father's footsteps to Michigan, where he played from 2001-2004. During his senior year in 2004, Edwards set Michigan season records for receptions (97) and yards (1,330), and career records for receptions (252), yards (3,541), and touchdowns (39);[2] the career touchdown mark is also a Big Ten Conference record.[3] Edwards also set the Michigan record for the most games with 100 or more receiving yards (17). That year Edwards won the Fred Biletnikoff Award, given to the nation's top wide receiver, and was named the Big Ten Conference MVP. He was also a consensus All-America selection.

Edwards is the only wide receiver in Big Ten history, and the third in NCAA Division I-A annals, to gain 1,000 or more receiving yards in three consecutive years. At Michigan, Edwards wore jersey number 80 during his freshman and sophomore years, but changed to wear number 1 jersey during his junior and senior years. Edwards concluded his college career by recording three touchdown catches in the 2005 Rose Bowl against Texas, tying a record for that game. Braylon's Michigan career did not entirely eclipse Jack Clancy's who still holds the Michigan single game receptions yardage at 197, while Edwards remains third for his 189 yard effort in 2004.[4] Edwards also fell just short of eclipsing Clancy's 10 game single season records of 76 receptions and 1077 yards by recording 76 and 149 in 10 games on his way to his record setting 97 reception 1330 yard 12 game efforts of 2004. Edwards also ran track and his indoor 200 meter time of 21.81 was the third fastest in Michigan history when he completed his career.[5] It is now sixth fastest.

NFL career

2005 NFL Draft

Edwards was selected third overall in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns.

Pre-draft measureables
Wt 40y 20ss 3-cone Vert BP Wonderlic
211 lb 4.4s 4.38s 6.87s 37 1/2"[6] 22* 27*[7]
(* represents NFL Combine)

Cleveland Browns

2005

As a Brown, Edwards followed a current trend among NFL receivers by wearing a number in the teens, 17. Edwards began his rookie season as Cleveland's third wide receiver - he would have started higher, but a hold-out caused him to miss the beginning of training camp. Early in the season Edwards revealed that he had a staph infection, and missed a few weeks as a result of it. He moved into the starting lineup by midseason. He amassed 512 receiving yards and three touchdowns before suffering a season ending knee injury. Edwards had surgery in the offseason, and while rehabilitating bonded with Kellen Winslow II. Both were determined to make a full and speedy recovery.

2006

Edwards, like Winslow, had a successful rehabilitation that enabled him to be ready to play in the team's opening game in 2006.[8] Edwards became the top receiver for the Browns after an injury to Joe Jurevicius that season. Edwards totaled 61 receptions for 884 yards and six touchdowns on the season. At the end of the season, Edwards announced he would give $500,000 to the University of Michigan for a scholarship endowment for football players.

On May 15, 2007, Edwards pledged US$1 million in college scholarships for students in Cleveland who keep at least a 2.5 GPA through high school. Edwards' foundation will select 10,000 eighth-grade students for the program.

2007

Edwards had a breakout season in 2007 and made his first Pro Bowl, becoming the first Browns receiver to make the Pro Bowl since Webster Slaughter in 1989. Edwards broke franchise records for receiving yardage with 1289 receiving yards compared to Slaughter's record of 1236 in 1989 and receiving touchdowns with 16 compared to Gary Collins's 13 in 1963. Edwards' 16 touchdowns was also second in the league behind only Randy Moss who set an NFL record with 23 touchdowns.

Statistics

Year Team Games Starts Receptions Yards Average Touchdowns
2005 Cleveland 10 7 32 512 16 3
2006 Cleveland 16 15 61 884 14.5 6
2007 Cleveland 16 16 80 1,289 16.1 16
Totals 42 38 173 2,685 15.5 25

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Braylon Edwards, WR, Michigan". USA TODAY. 2005-05-18. Retrieved 2007-12-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Record Book" (PDF). University of Michigan & Host Interactive. 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  3. ^ "Big Ten Football: Individual Records (All Games)" (PDF). The Big Ten Conference. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  4. ^ "Versus Michigan State October 30, 2004". Regents of the University of Michigan. 2003. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  5. ^ "The Record Book (through the 2006 season)" (PDF). MGoBlue.com. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  6. ^ Packers.com » News » Stories » April 19, 2005: Gil Brandt's NFL Draft Analysis By Position: Wide Receivers
  7. ^ Braylon Edwards, WR, Michigan - 2005 NFL Draft Scout Profile, Powered by The SportsXchange
  8. ^ http://clevelandbrowns.com/news_room/news/arts/5543.0.html

External links
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