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Armanti Edwards
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Quarterback - QB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 184
Senior
Previous Affiliations
Greenwood
Previous Experience
Greenwood, S.C.
The most decorated player in Appalachian history ... winner of the 2008 Walter Payton Award, given annually to the nation’s top NCAA Division I FCS (Football Championship Subdivision — formerly Division I-AA) player ... is the clear-cut favorite to become the first two-time winner in the 23-year history of the Payton Award ... became just the sixth underclassman to take home the award when he won it in a landslide last December ... is on pace to own every record for a quarterback in ASU and Southern Conference history ... is already the school and conference’s all-time leader in total offense (10,783 yards), touchdowns responsible for (109), touchdown passes (62) and rushing yards by a quarterback (3,682) ... in addition to his continued assault on the school’s passing and total-offense records, Edwards needs just 1,123 rushing yards to become ASU’s all-time leader in that prestigious category as well (his career average coming into the campaign is 1,227 rushing yards per season) ... poised to become one of the top two dual-threat quarterbacks in NCAA Division I history, FCS or FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision — formerly Division I-A) ... is already the only player in FCS history with 7,000 passing yards and 3,500 rushing yards in a career (fourth Division I player overall to achieve the feat) ... is on pace to join former Missouri great Brad Smith (2002-05) as the only players in Division I history with 8,000 passing yards and 4,000 rushing yards in a career ... comes into the season ranked 17th in FCS history in total offense and, should he post numbers similar to last year, he will finish his career behind only the late Steve McNair’s 16,823 yards on the FCS’s all-time total-offense list ... looking to become the first four-time all-American in school history ... is the only ASU quarterback to earn all-America recognition more than once ... is 32-5 in 37 career starts ... will graduate in December, earning a bachelor’s degree in graphic arts and imaging technology in just three-and-a-half years ... has fully recovered from injuries that limited his production at the end of last season, including a right knee injury that required an athroscopic procedure in January.
2009 Ran over foot with lawnmower. Quick enough to avoid major injury.
2008: Won the Walter Payton Award (commonly referred to as the FCS version of the Heisman Trophy) in a landslide, easily out-distancing James Madison quarterback Rodney Landers with 398 total points and 53 first-place votes, compared to 290 points and 17 first-place nods for the JMU signal-caller ... was a consensus first-team All-American, receiving first-team recognition from the Associated Press, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Football Foundation, The Sports Network and College Sporting News ... voted the Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Year by the league’s coaches and media ... first-team all-SoCon honoree ... completed 196-of-306 passes for 2,902 yards and 30 touchdowns and rushed 193 times for 941 yards and 11 more scores ... set single-season school records for total offense (3,843 yards), touchdown passes and touchdowns responsible for (41) ... also established new conference single-season standards for total offense and touchdowns responsible for ... threw only two interceptions in 224 regular-season pass attempts ... put together a school-record string of 176 passes without an interception that spanned over two months, through eight full games and parts of two others ... tossed at least one touchdown pass in each of his 13 games and rushed for scores in 8-of-13 contests ... opened the season with two relatively lackluster performances at LSU (155 passing yards, 23 rushing yards) and Jacksonville (season-low 122 yards of total offense, including just 45 through the air on 3-of-8 passing) ... got off the shneid with 251 yards of offense (142 rushing, 109 passing) in the Apps’ heart-breaking 35-32 setback at James Madison ... threw an interception in the fourth quarter off the loss at JMU, which is notable because it would be his last INT of the regular season ... a week later versus Presbyterian, had his best performance of the year to date (256 yards of total offense, including 220 through the air) cut short when he suffered an ankle injury midway through the third quarter ... he would show no ill effects of the injury the next week, however, as he went over the 300-yard total-offense threshold for the first time all season with 225 yards on 14-of-18 passing and 80 yards on 15 rushes in a 47-21 rout over 12th-ranked The Citadel ... Edwards was responsible for six of ASU’s seven touchdowns in the win (four passing — a career high at the time — and two rushing) ... followed up the breakthrough performance versus The Citadel with back-to-back impressive showings on the road, compiling 370 yards of total offense in a 38-24 win at Samford and 333 total yards in a nail-biting 37-36 triumph at Georgia Southern ... completed 22-of-29 passes for 307 yards and three touchdowns through the air at SU ... put together a more balanced performance at GSU, passing for 176 yards and two touchdowns and rushing a career-high 33 times for 157 yards and three scores ... had a relatively pedestrian performance in the following week’s home win over No. 18 Furman, completing 16-of-24 passes for 186 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 16 more yards and another score ... as has been the case for much of his career, he saved his best performance of an outstanding October for when the spotlight was the brightest, racking up 440 yards of total offense and a career-best six touchdowns responsible for in a 70-24, nationally televised Friday night rout over No. 3 Wofford ... sliced and diced the Terrier defense to the tune of 367 yards and five touchdown strikes on 17-of-19 passing ... the five touchdown passes matched a school record and were a season high ... in the process, he became the SoCon’s all-time leader in total offense, surpassing the previous conference record of 9,370 set by his predecessor as ASU’s signal-caller, Richie Williams ... the sterling effort came on Halloween night in front of a school-record crowd of 30,931 and a potential television audience of over 93 million households on ESPN2 ... the career showing against the Terriers also wrapped up a spectacular month of October for Edwards ... he accounted for 1,650 yards of total offense (330 yards per game) and 24 touchdowns in five games in October, en route to being named the SoCon’s Offensive Player of the Month ... other mind-blowing numbers from his amazing march included completing 81-of-112 passes (72.3 percent) without an interception, amassing 1,261 yards and 16 touchdowns through the air while throwing for multiple touchdowns in all five games, posting a 214.04 pass efficiency rating, running 91 times for 389 yards (4.3 yards per carry) and eight more scores, scoring at least one rushing touchdown in all five games and being named the SoCon Offensive Player of the Week four times ... he began November on an equally impressive note, racking up 328 yards of total offense (176 rushing, 152 passing) in the first half of ASU’s 49-7 win at Chattanooga ... after leading the Mountaineers to a 35-7 halftime lead, Edwards watched the entire second half from the sideline ... the following week, he completed 12-of-14 passes for 147 yards and rushed 12 times for 104 yards to lead the Apps to a SoCon-title-clinching 24-16 win over No. 11 Elon ... the win came at a price, however, as Edwards sustained knee and hip injuries in the win that would keep him out of the regular-season finale at Western Carolina and severely limit his mobility for the rest of the season ... in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Championship versus South Carolina State, he completed a career-high 29 passes for a school-record 433 yards and four touchdowns ... however, lingering effects of the injury were still evident as he rushed for only 48 yards and threw his first two interceptions since the Sept. 20 loss at JMU ... things unraveled the following week, as the hobbled Edwards was not able to elude Richmond’s pass rush and threw five interceptions — one more than his season total coming into the game — in the 33-13 loss ... with virtually no ability to escape from the pocket, was limited to three rushing yards, the lowest total of his career as a starter.
Armanti Edwards
http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics/200/GQ/GQDPNDZFQCYCWCD.20090728040420.jpg
Quarterback - QB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 184
Senior
Previous Affiliations
Greenwood
Previous Experience
Greenwood, S.C.
The most decorated player in Appalachian history ... winner of the 2008 Walter Payton Award, given annually to the nation’s top NCAA Division I FCS (Football Championship Subdivision — formerly Division I-AA) player ... is the clear-cut favorite to become the first two-time winner in the 23-year history of the Payton Award ... became just the sixth underclassman to take home the award when he won it in a landslide last December ... is on pace to own every record for a quarterback in ASU and Southern Conference history ... is already the school and conference’s all-time leader in total offense (10,783 yards), touchdowns responsible for (109), touchdown passes (62) and rushing yards by a quarterback (3,682) ... in addition to his continued assault on the school’s passing and total-offense records, Edwards needs just 1,123 rushing yards to become ASU’s all-time leader in that prestigious category as well (his career average coming into the campaign is 1,227 rushing yards per season) ... poised to become one of the top two dual-threat quarterbacks in NCAA Division I history, FCS or FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision — formerly Division I-A) ... is already the only player in FCS history with 7,000 passing yards and 3,500 rushing yards in a career (fourth Division I player overall to achieve the feat) ... is on pace to join former Missouri great Brad Smith (2002-05) as the only players in Division I history with 8,000 passing yards and 4,000 rushing yards in a career ... comes into the season ranked 17th in FCS history in total offense and, should he post numbers similar to last year, he will finish his career behind only the late Steve McNair’s 16,823 yards on the FCS’s all-time total-offense list ... looking to become the first four-time all-American in school history ... is the only ASU quarterback to earn all-America recognition more than once ... is 32-5 in 37 career starts ... will graduate in December, earning a bachelor’s degree in graphic arts and imaging technology in just three-and-a-half years ... has fully recovered from injuries that limited his production at the end of last season, including a right knee injury that required an athroscopic procedure in January.
2009 Ran over foot with lawnmower. Quick enough to avoid major injury.
2008: Won the Walter Payton Award (commonly referred to as the FCS version of the Heisman Trophy) in a landslide, easily out-distancing James Madison quarterback Rodney Landers with 398 total points and 53 first-place votes, compared to 290 points and 17 first-place nods for the JMU signal-caller ... was a consensus first-team All-American, receiving first-team recognition from the Associated Press, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Football Foundation, The Sports Network and College Sporting News ... voted the Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Year by the league’s coaches and media ... first-team all-SoCon honoree ... completed 196-of-306 passes for 2,902 yards and 30 touchdowns and rushed 193 times for 941 yards and 11 more scores ... set single-season school records for total offense (3,843 yards), touchdown passes and touchdowns responsible for (41) ... also established new conference single-season standards for total offense and touchdowns responsible for ... threw only two interceptions in 224 regular-season pass attempts ... put together a school-record string of 176 passes without an interception that spanned over two months, through eight full games and parts of two others ... tossed at least one touchdown pass in each of his 13 games and rushed for scores in 8-of-13 contests ... opened the season with two relatively lackluster performances at LSU (155 passing yards, 23 rushing yards) and Jacksonville (season-low 122 yards of total offense, including just 45 through the air on 3-of-8 passing) ... got off the shneid with 251 yards of offense (142 rushing, 109 passing) in the Apps’ heart-breaking 35-32 setback at James Madison ... threw an interception in the fourth quarter off the loss at JMU, which is notable because it would be his last INT of the regular season ... a week later versus Presbyterian, had his best performance of the year to date (256 yards of total offense, including 220 through the air) cut short when he suffered an ankle injury midway through the third quarter ... he would show no ill effects of the injury the next week, however, as he went over the 300-yard total-offense threshold for the first time all season with 225 yards on 14-of-18 passing and 80 yards on 15 rushes in a 47-21 rout over 12th-ranked The Citadel ... Edwards was responsible for six of ASU’s seven touchdowns in the win (four passing — a career high at the time — and two rushing) ... followed up the breakthrough performance versus The Citadel with back-to-back impressive showings on the road, compiling 370 yards of total offense in a 38-24 win at Samford and 333 total yards in a nail-biting 37-36 triumph at Georgia Southern ... completed 22-of-29 passes for 307 yards and three touchdowns through the air at SU ... put together a more balanced performance at GSU, passing for 176 yards and two touchdowns and rushing a career-high 33 times for 157 yards and three scores ... had a relatively pedestrian performance in the following week’s home win over No. 18 Furman, completing 16-of-24 passes for 186 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 16 more yards and another score ... as has been the case for much of his career, he saved his best performance of an outstanding October for when the spotlight was the brightest, racking up 440 yards of total offense and a career-best six touchdowns responsible for in a 70-24, nationally televised Friday night rout over No. 3 Wofford ... sliced and diced the Terrier defense to the tune of 367 yards and five touchdown strikes on 17-of-19 passing ... the five touchdown passes matched a school record and were a season high ... in the process, he became the SoCon’s all-time leader in total offense, surpassing the previous conference record of 9,370 set by his predecessor as ASU’s signal-caller, Richie Williams ... the sterling effort came on Halloween night in front of a school-record crowd of 30,931 and a potential television audience of over 93 million households on ESPN2 ... the career showing against the Terriers also wrapped up a spectacular month of October for Edwards ... he accounted for 1,650 yards of total offense (330 yards per game) and 24 touchdowns in five games in October, en route to being named the SoCon’s Offensive Player of the Month ... other mind-blowing numbers from his amazing march included completing 81-of-112 passes (72.3 percent) without an interception, amassing 1,261 yards and 16 touchdowns through the air while throwing for multiple touchdowns in all five games, posting a 214.04 pass efficiency rating, running 91 times for 389 yards (4.3 yards per carry) and eight more scores, scoring at least one rushing touchdown in all five games and being named the SoCon Offensive Player of the Week four times ... he began November on an equally impressive note, racking up 328 yards of total offense (176 rushing, 152 passing) in the first half of ASU’s 49-7 win at Chattanooga ... after leading the Mountaineers to a 35-7 halftime lead, Edwards watched the entire second half from the sideline ... the following week, he completed 12-of-14 passes for 147 yards and rushed 12 times for 104 yards to lead the Apps to a SoCon-title-clinching 24-16 win over No. 11 Elon ... the win came at a price, however, as Edwards sustained knee and hip injuries in the win that would keep him out of the regular-season finale at Western Carolina and severely limit his mobility for the rest of the season ... in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Championship versus South Carolina State, he completed a career-high 29 passes for a school-record 433 yards and four touchdowns ... however, lingering effects of the injury were still evident as he rushed for only 48 yards and threw his first two interceptions since the Sept. 20 loss at JMU ... things unraveled the following week, as the hobbled Edwards was not able to elude Richmond’s pass rush and threw five interceptions — one more than his season total coming into the game — in the 33-13 loss ... with virtually no ability to escape from the pocket, was limited to three rushing yards, the lowest total of his career as a starter.