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Hits kept on coming for Edwards
Good read on the young gun, Kiper had him going at the top of the 2nd - The Answer had him as a late 1st rounder on his draft board:
Bills notebook
Hits kept on coming for Stanford quarterback Edwards
By Mark Gaughan and Allen Wilson NEWS SPORTS REPORTERS
Updated: 04/30/07 6:38 AM
Three of Trent Edwards’ four seasons as the quarterback for Stanford University were shortened by injury.
That didn’t diminish the respect Buffalo Bills quarterback coach Turk Schonert had for Edwards.
“People talk about him being injury-prone,” Schonert said after the Bills drafted Edwards in the third round. “When I met him at the combine I shook his hand and congratulated him on how many games he actually did play. He got hit that much. They were a bad football team.”
Edwards battled through adversity in college but he steps into what looks like a good situation in Buffalo. The Bills have only two NFL quarterbacks on their roster, and they had a need for a young developing passer.
Why did they use a thirdround pick on Edwards? The Bills said he was much more highly rated than anyone else on their board when they made the 92nd overall pick. There already had been 16 receivers taken when the Bills made their third-round pick. The top nine cornerbacks were off the board. California cornerback Daymeion Hughes may have been the next best choice for the Bills. He went 95th to the Colts.
ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper had Edwards going at the top of the second round — 34th overall. The Dallas Morning News rated him 37th overall. Mike Mayock of the NFL Network rated him 50th overall.
“He was a guy you didn’t expect to see around at this point in the third round,” said Bills scout Terry Wooden. “He was a guy we couldn’t pass up.”
“He was in our top three or four quarterbacks,” Schonert said......
~The Answer
Bills notebook
Hits kept on coming for Stanford quarterback Edwards
By Mark Gaughan and Allen Wilson NEWS SPORTS REPORTERS
Updated: 04/30/07 6:38 AM
Three of Trent Edwards’ four seasons as the quarterback for Stanford University were shortened by injury.
That didn’t diminish the respect Buffalo Bills quarterback coach Turk Schonert had for Edwards.
“People talk about him being injury-prone,” Schonert said after the Bills drafted Edwards in the third round. “When I met him at the combine I shook his hand and congratulated him on how many games he actually did play. He got hit that much. They were a bad football team.”
Edwards battled through adversity in college but he steps into what looks like a good situation in Buffalo. The Bills have only two NFL quarterbacks on their roster, and they had a need for a young developing passer.
Why did they use a thirdround pick on Edwards? The Bills said he was much more highly rated than anyone else on their board when they made the 92nd overall pick. There already had been 16 receivers taken when the Bills made their third-round pick. The top nine cornerbacks were off the board. California cornerback Daymeion Hughes may have been the next best choice for the Bills. He went 95th to the Colts.
ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper had Edwards going at the top of the second round — 34th overall. The Dallas Morning News rated him 37th overall. Mike Mayock of the NFL Network rated him 50th overall.
“He was a guy you didn’t expect to see around at this point in the third round,” said Bills scout Terry Wooden. “He was a guy we couldn’t pass up.”
“He was in our top three or four quarterbacks,” Schonert said......
~The Answer
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