Braylon Edwards Better Not Blow This Opportunity

The vultures may be circling the new Seahawk

On Christmas Eve 2011, Braylon Edwards and his 49ers teammates went into Seattle and held off the Seahawks, improving their record to 12-3, and enhancing their odds at getting a first round playoff bye.
 
Three days after the game, in which he had one catch for nine yards in the second quarter, Edwards was cut by the 49ers.
 
It was a meek end to an equally meek run for one of the NFL’s resident bad boys. Having only 15 catches for 181 yards and no touchdowns in the nine games he managed to play,

Edwards was deemed expendable on the verge of the 49ers’ first playoff run in nearly a decade.

Curiously, the day he was cut, fellow receivers Ted Ginn Jr. and Kyle Williams were battling injuries. That left Michael Crabtree as the only healthy receiver of note. 
 
That San Francisco nearly made it to the Super Bowl without him, their run ended by special teams miscues and not his absence, should speak to the diminished value that Edwards has today.
 
Edwards, for those that have forgotten, was the No. 3 overall pick by Cleveland in the 2005 NFL Draft.


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