NORMAL — An 81-yard touchdown reception just 1:49 into a game will do wonders for a wide receiver’s statistics.
Yet Andrew Edgar was no flash in the pan for ninth-ranked Illinois State on Saturday in a 38-28 Missouri Valley Football Conference loss to No. 7 South Dakota State.
A redshirt freshman, Edgar was a viable target all afternoon for quarterbacks Brady Davis and Jake Kolbe and totaled 202 yards on nine receptions. It was the first 200-yard effort by a Redbird receiver since Anthony Warrum stung SDSU for 241 yards in 2015.
“We just had a good game plan,” said Edgar of an ISU offense that produced 364 passing yards.