Chase Edmonds Named 2016 Walter Camp & AFCA All-American

2016 Walter Camp Football Championship Subdivision All-America team | 2016 AFCA FCS All-America Team
 
Bronx, N.Y. – Another week and two more All-America honors for Fordham University junior running back Chase Edmonds who was named to the 2016 Walter Camp Football Championship Subdivision All-America team as well as being named first team AFCA FCS Coaches All-America it was announced today. Last week, Edmonds was named a first team Associated Press NCAA FCS All-American.
 
Edmonds is one of two Patriot League players to be named to the Walter Camp all-America Team and one of three to earn AFCA All-America honors.
 
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.  Visit www.waltercamp.org for more information.
 
The AFCA has selected an All-America team since 1945 and currently selects teams in all five of its divisions. Beginning this year, the AFCA has started selecting a first and second team. What makes these teams so special is that they are the only ones chosen exclusively by the men who know the players the best — the coaches themselves.

 
Edmonds, a First Team All-Patriot League and ECAC All-Star selection this fall, rushed 257 times for 1,799 yards and 19 touchdowns. He leads the NCAA FCS in rushing yards and rushing yards per game (163.5) as well as ranking second in all-purpose yards per game (194.6) and third in rushing touchdowns. The 1,799 yards is just 39 yards shy of Edmonds' school single season record set in 2014.
 
Against Lafayette on October 8, Edmonds rushed for a school and Patriot League record 359 yards (the most by an NCAA Division I player this year) on just 17 carries, averaging 21.1 yards per carry, setting an NCAA FCS record for most yards gained per rush in a game. The former mark was 19.07 set by VMI's Gene Brown in 1988. Edmonds surpassed his own school and Patriot League record of 347 yards, set last year against Lehigh.
 
For the second straight year, Edmonds finished fourth in voting for the Walter Payton Award, presented annually to the NCAA FCS most outstanding offensive player.
 
Over his three-year career, Edmonds has rushed for a school record 5,285 yards, just 336 yards shy of Jordan Scott's Patriot League career record of 5,621 yards. He has 62 career rushing touchdowns and 69 overall career touchdowns, both school and Patriot League records. He also holds the school and Patriot League scoring marks with 414 career points.
 
The Rams closed out the season with an 8-3 overall record, 5-1 in the Patriot League. It is Fordham's fourth straight winning season, the first time the Rams have posted four consecutive winning campaigns since 1976-1979.