2023: Saw action in nine games and made one start … Rushed for 161 yards on 37 careers with three touchdowns … Key contributor on special teams, making five tackles on kick returns … Played through injury through second half of season … Posted career-high 103 yards on 14 carries to go with pair of touchdowns in win over Marist.
2022: Played in nine games … Rushed for 213 yards on 50 carries with three touchdowns … Found the endzone in win over Cornell … Had career-long 29-yard rush against Yale … Posted career-high 77 yards on the ground on 19 carries in win at Georgetown … Rushed nine times for 44 yards to go with a touchdown at Marist.
2021: Saw action in all 10 games as a sophomore running back and on special teams … Listed as a backup at running back on the depth chart … Ranked No. 5 on the team in rushing yards with 43 on 11 carries for a 3.9 average, 4.3 average yards per game and one touchdown on the season … Totaled 55 all-purpose yards on year, including 12 on kickoff returns … Also made one tackle on special teams at Cornell (Nov. 20) … Returned a kickoff 12 yards at Yale (Oct. 30) … Rushed one time for five yards at Central Connecticut State (Oct. 9) … Rushed one time for three yards at Princeton (Oct. 2) … Finished with a career-best 32 yards rushing and first career touchdown on four-yard carry with longest rush coming on a 10-yard carry vs. Georgetown (Sept. 25) … In career debut, carried the ball one time for three yards in season opener vs. Marist (Sept 18).
2020: Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2020 graduate of Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas, where he played three years of varsity football for Head Coach Kevin Atkinson … Unanimous Class 6-6A All-District First Team selection as a senior running back … Named co-Offensive team Most Valuable Player as a senior … Named team captain as a senior … Rushed for 1,341 yards and 15 touchdowns on 228 carries (5.9 average yards per carry) and caught 31 passes for 417 receiving yards and four receiving touchdowns, totaled 19 touchdowns as a senior … Top performance was a four touchdown, 327 total yard contest where he also scored a touchdown on a 92-yard catch-and-run in a win over Waxahachie … Led the Marauders to an 11-2 overall record, perfect 7-0 district record and district championship after defeating their rivals in overtime during the last regular season game of the year … Rushed for 353 yards on 48 carries with four touchdowns and a7.4 average yards per carry and caught four passes for 54 yards as a junior … Led the Marauders to a 5-5 record as a junior … Also played one season of baseball … National Honor Society student … National Merit-Commended student … Earned the Magnificent Marauder student-athlete award … Member of the Black History Club and Young Life.
PERSONAL: Born Ty’son Edwards on August 4, 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada … Son of Ty and Tammy Edwards … Has two sisters Bria and Tori … Father played football at California from 1991-94, in the Canadian Football League with Calgary (1995-96) and for the NFL Europe’s England Monarchs (1998) … Father is the last Cal running back to rush for over 200 yards in a game as he ran for 205 yards and two touchdowns in a victory over Stanford in 1994 … Father is a strength and conditioning and personal speed coach … Hobbies and interests include working out, video games, hunting, and fishing … Nickname is “Tee” … Role model is his father, who was once a professional football player and played the same position as him … Favorite sports figure: Bo Jackson … One word that describes him: well-rounded … Favorite part of playing football is the brotherhood and the fact that it builds character and helps one to become a better person … Became interested in Columbia after it started recruiting him, then began taking visits and fell in love with the university … Favorite things about Columbia are its diversity, different cultures in the city and location in New York City … Selected Columbia for its school environment and atmosphere along with the prime education … Committed to Columbia on February 5, 2020 … Selected Columbia over offers from Wake Forest, Brown, Davidson, Penn, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, West Texas A&M, and Chicago … Enrolled at Columbia College.
