Braylon Edwards

Braylon Jamel Edwards (born February 21, 1983) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL).

He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning unanimous All-American honors and recognition as the top college wide receiver.

He was also the first receiver in Big Ten Conference history to record three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons and only the third to do so in NCAA Division I-A.

Edwards broke franchise records for receiving yardage with 1,289 receiving yards compared to Slaughter's record of 1,236 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.

Edwards attended the University of Michigan, following in his father Stan Edwards's footsteps, where he played for coach Lloyd Carr's Michigan Wolverines football team from 2001 to 2004.

He placed third in the high jump at the 2003 Meyo Invitational, with a personal-best leap of 2.11 meters.

During his senior season in 2004, he set Michigan season records for receptions (97) and receiving yards (1,330), and career records with 252 receptions, 3,541 yards, and 39 touchdowns, a Big Ten record.

Edwards also set the Michigan career record for the most games with 100 or more receiving yards (17).

Edwards also fell just short of eclipsing Jack Clancy's 10-game single-season records of 76 receptions and 1,077 yards by recording 76 and 1,049 in his first 10 in 2004.

He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

Braylon Edwards also ran track and field at Michigan.

His indoor 200 meter time of 21.81 seconds was the third fastest in school history at that time.

Edwards also ran the 60-meter dash and the 100-meter dash.

He was selected by the Cleveland Browns with the third overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.

He also played in the NFL for the New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks.

Edwards was born in Detroit, Michigan.

During his three active high school years at Bishop Gallagher High School, Edwards played a variety of positions for his high school football team, and made 63 receptions for 740 yards and eight touchdowns.

Edwards concluded his college career by recording three touchdown catches in the 2005 Rose Bowl against the Texas Longhorns, tying the Rose Bowl record.

Edwards was selected in the first round (third overall) in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns.

Edwards began his rookie season as Cleveland's third wide receiver – 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 made his NFL debut versus the Cincinnati Bengals on September 11 and caught his first NFL touchdown at the Green Bay Packers on September 18.

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.

Edwards, like Winslow, had a successful rehabilitation that enabled him to be ready to play in the team's opening game in 2006.

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.

Edwards also had an altercation with Charlie Frye on the sidelines of a game in 2006.

He said "and they're talking about video games."

Edwards continued to make headlines that season when he called out Mike Minter, Chris Gamble, Ricky Manning and other defensive backs of the Carolina Panthers.

Additionally, he attended the annual Michigan-Ohio State rivalry game after being advised not to go by several veteran captains.

Edwards was late getting back from Columbus and was late to a team meeting.

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.

During the 2013 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, Jeremy Gallon eclipsed Edwards' school single-season receiving yardage record with a total of 1373.

Following his senior season, he won the Fred Biletnikoff Award given to the nation's top receiver, was awarded the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten Conference's most valuable player, and was recognized as a unanimous first-team All-American.

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.