Kansas State Football | RB Dylan Edwards Press Conference | Aug 31; UT-Martin

man it was a surreal feeling being on the field finally in the purple but I'm just blessed to be here and blessed to be with my teammates here at Kansas State what was your favorite part about tonight uh really just looking up at the scoreboard and seeing it was 41- six just a w um I ain't won a game in a while and it just felt really good you and DJ had a few times where you guys were able to share the field and how effective do you think that makes the offense to know that you've got two guys in that back field who can make plays it's definitely different um practice is definitely different as well I think you guys have seen it as well um we push each other and compete and you see out there he's a great player so we're going to keep on you know putting on for Kansas State this year what's up feeling like catching that touchdown and hearing the crowd it's a great feeling because when we were in the Huddle before the play every was like Hey be open I'm looking at you and so um after I caught it you know we celebrated and everything it just felt real real good so you've been talking about this there's been buildup about you and ay being able to take a f together what was that moment like you guys W to same uniform I think when I first went out there we just looked at each other it's here let's go and um I feel like when we had a little bit of adversity in the first half I was like I looked at him told him to just take over um do do you be you and he did you see how the outcome look so I think he did a great job at doing that were you nervous it all heading into the day um coming into it I mean it's a brand new atmosphere for me um the buildup to the game and the hotel room and everything it was definitely nerves coming in but my roommate was DJ gens and we just chilled and watched college football and ate pizza the night before and just chopped it up a little bit and just chilled watched film so I mean I really feel like the nerves just all went away after the day was ended how how would your R through where you played in game one um I feel like I did good but I definitely feel like um through these next games I want to show um as a team we want to show that we we're not to be messed with and that we're here to stay in the Big 12 and we want to win in the Big 12 was there a moment during the game where it sort of hit you that you were at home as you said and that you were playing for for K State um during warm-ups I was just looking at everybody I was looking at the crowd and I was like wow like it's really here like we're playing and it's it's go time so um just it felt real good was it good to kind of get the first one out of the way too yeah it definitely feels really good um but like I said this it's a long season so two lane next week and we just got to build off this win today coach Clem said at halftime he kind of got after the offense and made some adjustments what did he say What were what were some of those adjustments um just to keep keep stacking plays um we couldn't get a two ahead of ourselves um we came out there pretty you know slow so um just coming out there the second half with a mentality to get the win uh you know coach had mentioned that you know he sort of felt like it was good for you to get that first touch out the way did you sort of feel like getting that first touch would would sort of help you settle into the game a little bit we were working on that play um throughout the week and today they had you know put it in as the first play and I was just very excited and I was very antsy about it but um it was a great feeling a great feeling for sure how does your can I describe it yeah um I was shaking a little bit out there I don't know if you could see it on TV or not but it was it was a great feeling I knew football season was back after that play that's for sure how did you say just playing for Kansas state has maybe improved your game over the last couple of months I've definitely developed mentally and physically definitely the mental part um coach true and the strength staff definitely pushed me this off season to handle adversity because they know in the game adversity is going to come so to keep a level ahead and keep keep striving for um what I'm trying to do this season and what the team is trying to do it was definitely a good feeling to you know have those guys doing that for me how do you think your speed and explosiveness sort of helps this offense to to I guess get going at times um it's a great feeling knowing that I bring you know speed to this offense but we have a lot of guys that's some speed guys as well you've seen jaay out there today doing his thing and uh it's also DJ he's a 22 guy too so um we got a lot of speed Avery as well so I think we're just collectively a great offense what's your Rel about the improvement with true like how how much are you up Weight Wise from where you at when you you got right now last year I'm not going to tell you what weight but I could tell you I'm up 15 pounds and it's good weight it's not bad weight at all so I'm just happy about it you and Avery growing up together what was it like to be back out there with him it was great um it was a great feeling um felt like we were back at the Bears so it was just cool seeing my friend right next to me throwing me the ball and and being the general he is as a quarterback do you think it was important for your offense with young players New pieces all together to kind of have to struggle through that first half together and get things figured out yeah we're just trying to fill our fill ourselves out um just trying to see what this offense was really about and uh we definitely felt like in the second half we showed Kansas State what we were about so it's going be