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Chase Edmonds Named National Offensive Player of the Week

October 11, 2016 1:15 PM·

Fordham junior running back Chase Edmonds was named STATS NCAA FCS and CFPA NCAAFCS Offensive Player of the Week as well as Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week, it was announced today. It is the first weekly honor of 2016 for Edmonds and the fourth for the Rams.

In a 58-34 Patriot League win over Lafayette on Jack Coffey Field on Saturday, Edmonds continued his assault on the Patriot League and Fordham record books, rushing for a league and school record 359 yards with four touchdowns. He surpassed his own school and Patriot League record of 347 yards, set last year against Lehigh.

What made Edmonds’ day ever more remarkable is that he gained the 359 yards (the most by an NCAA Division I player this year) on just 17 carries, averaging 21.1 yards per carry, setting an NCAA FCS record for most yards gained per rush in a game. The former mark was 19.07 set by VMI’s Gene Brown in 1988.

After scoring just once over the first two games of the year, Edmonds has made up for lost time, scoring four times in each of the past three games. His scoring runs today covered 29, 19, 74 and 67 yards.

The four scores brought Edmonds’ scoring total this year to 78 points and his career total to 372, a new Patriot League record. He surpasses the former record of 358 points by Jordan Scott (2005-08) of Colgate. The four touchdowns now give him 62 career scores and 55 career rushing touchdowns, both school records. He surpasses Scott’s Patriot League touchdown record of 58 while he is two rushing scores behind the Patriot League record of 57, also set by Scott.

Edmonds helped Fordham set a new school single game rushing record as the Rams gained 516 yards on the ground, easily surpassing the previous mark of 383 yards set earlier this year against Elizabeth City State.

On the season Edmonds has rushed 105 times for 944 yards and 12 touchdowns. He leads the NCAA Division I (both FBS and FCS) in rushing yards, rushing average (188.8 yards/game) and all-purpose yards (215.60/game) and leads the NCAA FCS in scoring, averaging 15.6 points per game.

The Rams (3-2) return to action on Saturday, October 15, as they host the Yale University Bulldogs on Jack Coffey Field at 1:00 p.m.

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