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#6 Ben Edwards
Position: Wide Receiver
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 195
Year: Junior
Hometown: Yorktown, Va.
High School: York
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Edwards Videos

2013: Named to the CFPA FCS Wide Receivers Award Watch List ... 

2012:
 First-Team All-CAA ... Named The Touchdown Club of Richmond Division I National End/Wide Reciver of the Year ... First-Team VaSID All-State ... College Sports Madness Third-Team All-CAA ... 2012 CAA Football All-Academic Team ... Started all 11 games ... Led the CAA with 80 receptions while totaling a team-high 852 yards receiving and three touchdowns ... 80 catches rank second all-time in one season ... Also rushed for 117 yards on 16 carries ... Averaged 11.0 yards a punt return ... Reeled in 11 passes for 182 yards and touchdown against No. 4 Old Dominion ... Caught 11 passes for game-high 122 yards in win at VMI ... Also ran the ball once for 25 yards ... 10 receptions for 125 yards at No. 12/13 New Hampshire ... Career-high 13 receptions for 96 yards in Capital Cup win at William & Mary ... Had two catches for 73 yards and a touchdown in victory over Gardner-Webb ... Caught five passes for 36 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing the ball four times for 48 yards against Rhode Island ... Snagged six balls for 59 yards against Virginia ... Seven receptions for 57 yards in victory over Delaware ... Game-high six catches for 50 yards in win at Georgia State ... Four receptions for 27 yards in win over No. 2 James Madison ... Five catches for 25 yards in win at Villanova ...

2011: CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team ... Played in all 11 games, making 10 starts and notching 44 receptions for 509 yards and six touchdowns ... Caught eight passes for a season-high 98 yards and a touchdown against Maine ... Grabbed a career-high nine passes for 73 yards and completed a pass for 24 yards on a fourth-down conversion trick play at Delaware ... Returned a punt for 34 yards and a touchdown to go with two tackles in a nice special teams effort in a win against VMI ... Against William & Mary, had five catches for 75 yards and a touchdown ... Hauled in seven balls for 71 yards and a touchdown at Towson ... Returned four kicks for 66 yards to go along with two receptions for 22 yards at James Madison ... Also caught touchdown passes against Wagner, at New Hampshire, and at Old Dominion ... Totaled three or more receptions in seven games ...

2010: 
Was one of six true freshmen who saw action for Richmond in 2010 ... Played in 10 games (five starts) and reeled in nine catches for 129 yards and a touchdown ... His first career score was a 47-yard TD grab from Aaron Corp in the Coastal Carolina win ... Finished with a career-high three catches for a career-high 64 yards in the Coastal game... Had a 27-yard grab in the Elon win ...

High School: A highly-touted prep athlete from York High ... Scored 27 combined touchdowns as a junior on his way to Offensive Player of the Year honors in the Bay Rivers District ... Also earned First Team All-District and All-Region mention as both a quarterback and kick returner and a Second Team All-District nod as a punter ... Posted 900 yards passing, 950 yards rushing, 60 tackles and three interceptions as a junior ... Missed the last half of his senior year with an injury ... Averaged 14.0 points and 5.4 assists as a junior in basketball and was an All-District honoree ...

Personal: Son of Zach and Kathy Edwards ... His father played football at Virginia Tech and his brother, Aaron, plays football at Christopher Newport.