Braylon Jamel Edwards was born on February 21,1983 and is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League.
41 Facts About Braylon Edwards
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Braylon Edwards played college football for the University of Michigan, earned unanimous All-American honors, and was recognized as the top college wide receiver.
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Braylon Edwards was 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.
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Braylon Edwards was selected by the Cleveland Browns with the third overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.
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Braylon Edwards played for the New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks.
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Braylon Edwards attended the University of Michigan, following in his father Stan Braylon Edwards's footsteps, where he played for coach Lloyd Carr's Michigan Wolverines football team from 2001 to 2004.
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Braylon Edwards set the Michigan career record for the most games with 100 or more receiving yards.
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Braylon 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.
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Braylon Edwards concluded his college career by recording three touchdown catches in the 2005 Rose Bowl against the Texas Longhorns, tying the Rose Bowl record.
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Braylon Edwards 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.
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Braylon Edwards placed third in the high jump at the 2003 Meyo Invitational, with a personal-best leap of 2.11 meters.
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Braylon Edwards was selected in the first round in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns.
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Early in the season Braylon Edwards revealed that he had a staph infection, and missed a few weeks as a result of it.
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Braylon Edwards amassed 512 receiving yards and three touchdowns before suffering a season ending knee injury.
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Braylon Edwards had surgery in the offseason, and, while rehabilitating, bonded with Kellen Winslow II.
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Braylon Edwards became the top receiver for the Browns after an injury to Joe Jurevicius that season.
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Braylon Edwards totaled 61 receptions for 884 yards and six touchdowns on the season.
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Braylon Edwards had an altercation with Charlie Frye on the sidelines of a game in 2006.
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Braylon Edwards was late getting back from Columbus and was late to a team meeting.
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Braylon 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.
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Braylon 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.
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Braylon Edwards publicly made a bet with Michael Phelps that he would catch 17 touchdowns in 2008.
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On October 7,2009, Braylon Edwards was traded to the New York Jets for wide receiver Chansi Stuckey, linebacker Jason Trusnik and a third and fifth round draft pick in the 2010 NFL Draft.
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Braylon Edwards cited a need for a "fresh start" following the deal's completion.
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In 12 games for New York, Braylon Edwards had 35 catches for 541 yards and four touchdowns.
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Braylon Edwards remained with the New York Jets in 2010, catching 53 passes for 904 yards and 7 touchdowns.
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The contract would have increased to $3.5 million had Braylon Edwards recorded a 90-yard-catch or Pro Bowl season.
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On July 31,2012, Braylon Edwards signed a one-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks.
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Braylon Edwards was claimed off waivers by the New York Jets on December 11,2012.
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On July 25,2013, Braylon Edwards signed a one-year deal with the Jets for the 2013 season.
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Givens, who is an acquaintance of LeBron James, alleged that Braylon Edwards was jealous of James' success thus prompting Braylon Edwards' attack.
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Braylon Edwards was given a suspended 180-day jail sentence, was fined $1,000 and placed on inactive probation.
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On September 21,2010, Braylon Edwards was arrested on a drunken driving charge in New York early in the morning.
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Braylon Edwards was originally pulled over for having excessively tinted windows on his Range Rover.
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In October 2013, Braylon was accused of physically assaulting a man who had taken a video of Edwards fighting in the street earlier in the evening with an unknown man.
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The photographer said he was approached by Edwards who demanded the video be deleted and when the photographer refused and started to walk away, Braylon grabbed the photographers ankles from behind and lifted them up, causing the photographer's face to strike the pavement and then followed up by slamming him into the side of a car on the street.
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In 2007, Braylon Edwards pledged to 100 Cleveland high school students that, if they maintained grade point averages at 2.5 or higher and performed 15 hours of community service, he would pay for their college tuition, an offer valued at $1 million.
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On May 25,2011, it was widely reported that Braylon Edwards announced he was keeping his pledge.
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The scholarships are worth $10,000 each and fulfill a promise Braylon Edwards made to 100 eighth-graders in the Cleveland area in 2007 as long as they continued to meet the academic and community service requirements.
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Braylon Edwards started working for the Big 10 Television Network in the summer of 2017.
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Braylon Edwards is, as of 2022, working with Woodward Sports Network.