The 7th athlete in the MGoUsers Poll is...

Submitted by ItsHarambe on

Braylon Edwards

 

Edwards played for the football team from 2001 to 2004. During his senior season in 2004, he set Michigan season records for receptions (97) and receiving yards (1,330), and career records with 252 receptions, 3,541 yards, and 39 touchdowns, a Big Ten record. Edwards also set the Michigan career record for the most games with 100 or more receiving yards (17). 

Edwards is the only wide receiver in Big Ten history and the third in NCAA history to gain 1,000 or more receiving yards in three consecutive years. Following his senior season, he won the Fred Biletnikoff Award given to the nation's top receiver, was awarded the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten's most valuable player, and was recognized as a unanimous first-team All American.

Edwards was drafted 3rd overall by the Cleveland Browns in the 2005 NFL draft. 

 

Previous Posts: 

#8 - Jake Long

#9 - Mike Hart

#10 - Bennie Oosterbaan

#11 - Tom Brady

#12 - Jim Harbaugh

#13 - Glen Rice

#14 - Cazzie Russell

#15 - Rick Leach

#16 - Steve Hutchinson

#17 - Chris Webber

#18 - Ron Kramer

#19 - Sierra Romero

#20 -Trey Burke

#21 - Michael Phelps

#22 - Lamar Woodley

#23 - Dan Dierdorf. 

#24 - Benny Friedman

#25 - Anthony Thomas

 

Disclaimer: This is not my poll. This is a collection of polls taken by MGoUsers. Credit goes to Wikipedia for the info. If you're upset by these rankings, don't be. Everything is going to be okay. But feel free to let me know why I'm an idiot in the comment section. 

 

 

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JClay

August 26th, 2016 at 11:53 PM ^

Ehhhhh this is the point where this poll has come unredeemably off the rails. Love Braylon but he's ahead of an All American in there sports? Ugh.




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WolvinLA2

August 27th, 2016 at 12:15 AM ^

Braylon was not only an All American, he was the best player at his position in the country. That's a huge deal, especially for a position like WR that has 2-3 starters per team. I know he has rubbed some fans the wrong way since, but let's not forget how dominant he was on the field.

CorkyCole

August 27th, 2016 at 12:41 PM ^

Exactly. If you're judging this entirely as a "Michigan" athlete, Braylon had the better Michigan career as far as production goes. If you were to take each player's college careers and judge which one should have been the more successful professional athlete, it would be uncommon to think that Brady would be more successful in the NFL.

Obviously that wasn't the case, but to me both players professional careers are somewhat shocking. Braylon could have been Calvin Johnson before Calvin Johnson if only for his hands, and without Tom Brady's Harbaughness and competitive motor one would think he should have been closer to Orlovsky than the best QB of all time. Football and athletes are weird sometimes.

mGrowOld

August 26th, 2016 at 11:57 PM ^

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Nice work millennials....you actually Braylon fucking Edwards is a better Michigan athlete than Bennie Oosterbaan, Ron Kramer, Rickey Leach, Glenn Rice, Chris Weber and Cazzie Russell.

Ha, ha,ha,ha ha,ha.

mGrowOld

August 27th, 2016 at 5:46 AM ^

Not at all. Shame on you kids for being ignorant of your Michigan athletic historical achievements. On a poll claiming to list the 25 greatest Michigan athletes of all time (that's what it was) there is no WAY Braylon Edwards belongs in the top 10. No way in Hell which is why others also think it's nuts he's this high.

Shame on you for that.

mgobaran

August 27th, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^

It is a fact that football players right now are more ATHLETIC than a guy who played sports for Michigan in the 1930s/40s/50s/60s/70s/80s. Braylon was a great athlete for Michigan. A great wide receiver here. Quit bitching about the order, quit crying that not everyone knew it was all athletes instead of just football. Fucking enjoy your free content and reflect on a different great Michigan athlete each day. 

My god, you are insufferable.

Bando Calrissian

August 27th, 2016 at 12:31 AM ^

Yes, I know. And I'm pointing out that Desmond is and always will be second to AC. Braylon isn't even in the discussion.

3-time All-American. Finished top-10 in the Heisman voting 3 times. Team MVP twice. Conference MVP. Won a Rose Bowl. Held pretty much every record for two decades, despite playing in an offense that was maybe half as pass-happy as it would be by the 90s-00s.

Best WR in the history of Michigan Football. Period. 

modabomb

August 27th, 2016 at 12:26 AM ^

The guy's got more receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns than anyone else in Michigan history. He's also first or second in the single-game record books for all three categories. He might not be the sentimental favorite but he was more productive at Michigan than most of the guys below him on the list. Take into account some level of recency bias (athletes are objectively better now than they were 50 years ago) and football bias (one could make the case that Romero is ranked wayyy too low) and this ranking is pretty reasonable.

RoseInBlue

August 27th, 2016 at 10:23 AM ^

Ritter is obviously the best pitcher Michigan ever had.  But Romero's not all time just because she hit the ball well.  She obliterated almost every offensive record we have.  Not to mention the NCAA records she owns or is in the top 5 of.  The girl created her own offensive club (300 hits, 300 runs, 300 RBIs), a club she's going to be pretty damn lonely in for quite a while.

Jennie Ritter was great.  There's no denying that.  And she did win a National Championship.  But that's a team accomplishment (albeit one that Ritter certainly contributed to).  Based purely on stats, Romero's easily the greatest softball player to ever play for Michigan.