You can take your pick of standout performances from Colorado’s shocking 45-42 Week 1 upset over TCU. There was Shedeur Sanders with 510 yards through the air, Travis Hunter’s workmanlike 129 snaps, 119 receiving yards on 16 targets with an acrobatic interception. There were even circus catches downfield by Jimmy Horn Jr. and Xavier Weaver. But the leading receiver wasn't a receiver at all, but rather freshman running back Dylan Edwards.
Offensive coordinator Sean Lewis used Edwards to unlock TCU’s defense, exploiting the Frogs’ linebackers and getting the shifty 5’8” playmaker in space in different ways in the flats, where he proved to be absolutely deadly with 135 receiving yards on five catches with four total touchdowns, including a 75-yard screen we’ll get to a little bit later. First, take a look at how one of Colorado’s first snaps of the game foreshadowed how big a role Edwards would play in his college debut.
The Colorado receiver releases up the field and because of the logjam it creates, the second defender isn’t able to get through traffic to cover Edwards in the flat.
