Edwards comes to the Bills after entering the NFL with the Buccaneers. Tampa Bay drafted him in the third round of the 2019 NFL draft and played out the four years of his rookie contract there. After that, he signed a one-year deal with the Chiefs last season. He won two Super Bowls, one with both teams. That’s impressive, but Bills fans will hate that since that means Edwards won with Buffalo’s two rivals: the entire Kansas City team and Tom Brady, who was with the Bucs at that time. https://www.instagram.com/p/C3bpHWpNjSN/?hl=en&img_index=1

You really don’t have to look far for highlights of Edwards. He has the second-most defensive touchdowns in the NFL since 2021 with four. Edwards finds the end zone, which includes a game once upon a time where he recorded two pick-six interceptions against former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan:

Mike Edwards pick-6 Matt Ryan, Ryan’s second INT of the game.pic.twitter.com/oB7RpfWT2F

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Edwards could slide into Micah Hyde’s old starting spot, assuming Taylor Rapp (who signed an extension) takes Jordan Poyer’s position and Hyde does not return. Hyde is considering retirement. 

But like Hyde, Edwards has a versatile skill set to line up in a few different areas on defense. The 5-foot-10, 205-pound defender played more than 100 snaps as a box defender, slot cornerback and safety in at least the past two seasons.

The word versatile has always been a trigger word with a Sean McDermott team. Edwards falls under that umbrella.

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Edwards is in the NFL. He is clearly talented at football. But he even argued before that he was better at another game: Baseball. He told Catsillustrated.com he was “a really good baseball player, probably better than football.” His baseball career drifted away in high school due to a shoulder injury:

Man I miss playing baseball..

— Mike Edwards (@M__Edwards7) February 21, 2023

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When Edwards first joined Kentuckey’s football program in college, he had to work to get on the field. Not physically, rather, in the classroom. As a freshman in 2014, Edwards was not academically eligible during his first semester on campus. “It was really a tough time in my life,” Edwards told the Courier Journal. “I got here kind of late and I was working out by myself. I was far from the team and couldn’t work out with the team.”

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Edwards never missed a game for Kentucky after making his debut in 2015. That positive string of health followed him into the NFL. As the Bills injury website Banged Up Bills notes, Edwards has only missed five games due to injury in five seasons in the pros. Not a bad ratio.

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Before even getting to the NFL, Edwards claimed to own more than 100 pairs of shoes. A certified sneakerhead. Included in that, at the time, was more than 40 pairs of Air Jordans. “Feels like it’s my first pair of shoes,” he said in a video with WCPO- TV. “Every time.”

Who knows how many kicks Edwards owns after five years in the NFL.

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Back when receiver Antonio Brown was making headlines with Buccaneers, he was Edwards’ teammate. Edwards joined Brown in one poor episode.

The NFL suspended Brown, Edwards and former Bucs receiver John Franklin III three games without pay for using fake COVID-19 vaccination cards.

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The Super Bowl parade for the Chiefs in Kansas City took a bad turn with the shooting that unfolded. But personally, Edwards also unfortunately lost a bracelet there. No word on if it was ever returned. https://twitter.com/M__Edwards7/status/1757897082143203646?s=20