When Joe Moorhead, the coordinator for Fordham’s prolific offense, decided to leave to become an assistant at Penn State, Chase Edmonds wanted to also go to Happy Valley.
One large problem: Saquon Barkley was already a star running back there.
“I didn’t know what to do. They had ‘26,’ ” Edmonds said Thursday, as rookies arrived in Tempe for this weekend’s minicamp. “I wanted to follow (Moorhead), but 26 is 26.”
Edmonds had a long conversation with Moorhead, who told Fordham’s own star runner just to stick around and work, and good things would happen. It was then when Edmonds really started believing the NFL was a possibility – one that came true last month when the Cardinals made Edmonds their fourth-round pick.