There hasn't been too much news about Braylon Edwards since his "more TDs than Medals" bet he had with friend Micheal Phelps a few years ago and frankly, there isn't much to talk about. Yea he did pretty well last year, but he has played in 8 games and only started 5 in his first year with the 49er's and has barely outperformed Ryan Grant of GB this year in terms of receiving...and that's bad.
BUT, here's an off-the-field story about the guy that is really great. He is following up his "bet" where he told 100 High schoolers that if they could graduate with above a 2.5 GPA, he'd give them 10K for college. 79 of the kids came through and Edwards forked over the $790K promised, sending the kids to colleges across the nation. Now, you may think "he's a millionaire.He can afford it." And that's kind of true...he's made a good deal of money throughout his career...but his salary this season is 1million, leaving him $210,000 following his donation, or less than the league minimum salary. Still more than enough to live on...but more generous than most any other sports star I've heard of recently.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Braylon-Edwards-gave-79-students-10-000-for-col?urn=nfl-wp14415
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