Colorado RB Dylan Edwards expected to enter NCAA transfer portal

Colorado running back Dylan Edwards is expected to the NCAA transfer portal. After just one season as a freshman starter with the Buffaloes, Edwards will test the portal waters.

Colorado recently added former Ohio State running back Dallan Hayden to bolster the group. Despite what looked like a solid one-two punch, Edwards is set to explore other opportunities.

In 12 games last season, Edwards logged 76 carries for 321 yards, one touchdown and 4.2 yards per carry. He also had 36 catches for 299 yards and four touchdown receptions.

As a member of the Class of 2023, Edwards was a four-star recruit out of Derby (Kans.) High, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He was the No. 2 overall prospect in the state, the No. 11 running back in the class and the No. 181 overall prospect in the class.

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Originally a Kansas State commit, Edwards flipped to Colorado after changing his initial commitment to Notre Dame due to his relationship with head coach Deion Sanders.

The family bond between Edwards and Sanders was the real deal and it led to a year in Boulder.

“It made it special because I had a tremendous relationship with his parents,” Sanders said on national signing day. “Coach Andre Hart, a linebacker coach, coach Kevin Mathis, who coached with me from youth all the way up. We’ve coached that kid since I think he was 5 or 6 years old, and his siblings. Sibling.”

Sanders coached Edwards when the latter was in youth football.

“We have the utmost respect for (the Edwards family) that they would feel like we’re capable of really helping them mature that young man into a full grown man and help him accomplish his dreams and visions, and the things that he desired in life,” Sanders said of Edwards in 2023.

“So just knowing them and they know how we run a program, they know who we are, because we’ve been doing it consistently ever since he was a kid. That’s special. Dylan is a special kid.”