Coach Jerry Moore of Appalachian State said yesterday that he expects quarterback Armanti Edwards to play Saturday against McNeese State and that Edwards could start.
"Right now we will go with Armanti," Moore said. "He'll be ready to play on Saturday … unless something happens this week in practice, a flare up or something like that, but everything being normal, he will play Saturday."
Edwards returned to practice Monday, after missing all of preseason camp after cutting his right foot in a lawn-mowing accident Aug. 5. Moore said that foot is doing well.
"He had a good practice (Monday)," Moore said. "We're more concerned about his conditioning right now than his foot.
"He can play. I just don't know how long he can play.… It's just that conditioning is a factor."
Moore said that if Edwards doesn't start at quarterback, Travaris Cadet will.
Cadet, a sophomore and junior-college transfer, led the Mountaineers to three second-half scores in a 29-24 season-opening loss to East Carolina on Saturday. Sophomore DeAndre Presley started at quarterback against ECU.
But Moore said that Edwards, who won last season's Walter Payton Award as the top player in the Football Championship Subdivision, could be the starter.
"Obviously if he's ready to start, we'll start him," Moore said. "If not, I still think he's going to play. A lot of it has to with conditioning. He hasn't played in a ballgame since Richmond (last December). He hasn't even practiced since then … so conditioning is a concern right now.
"I think the next three or four days just adds that much more healing to it. The doctors released him (Monday) to play, and our trainers and he felt that himself. Whereas three or four days ago, last Thursday, he didn't feel like he could run on it. It's amazing how (it's healed)."
■ Tommy Bowman can be reached at 727-7320 or at tbowman@wsjournal.com.
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