#16

Tru Edwards

Former wide receiver at Louisiana Tech. 2024: 85 catches, 989 receiving yards, 6 TD.

WR · Louisiana Tech · Sr. · #16

6′3″ · 200 lb · Shreveport, LA

CFB Index 82 · #27 of 466 WRsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamLouisiana Tech 2024 — college career complete

The story

Former wide receiver at Louisiana Tech. 2024: 85 catches, 989 receiving yards, 6 TD.

Signed with Hawai'i in 2021.
Transferred from Louisiana Tech to Kentucky in 2025.

His career, year by year

Recruiting

WR recruit

Joined Hawai'i

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

How it ended

Three seasons at Louisiana Tech, 1,310 receiving yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2024) — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

The week the volume broke through — put up 85 yds at Liberty.Liberty · L 30-562023

20215 games

Signed with Hawai'iout of Navarro College

2022

Entered the portal

202413 games

All-Conference USAfirst

2025

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

—

2021 class

CFB

College

2 teams

2021–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

🥈

ALL-CONFERENCE USA · 1ST TEAM

All-Conference USA 1st team (2024)

Coaching lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches

2021

Skip Holtz

Louisiana Tech

2023–2024

Sonny Cumbie

Louisiana Tech

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Skip Holtz → Sonny Cumbie. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Hawai'i6-7HC: Todd Graham · Balanced

2023Louisiana Tech3-9HC: Sonny Cumbie · Balanced

2024Louisiana Tech5-8HC: Sonny Cumbie · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

82All-Conference level #27 of 466?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: catch rate (91st percentile). Strength: receptions (98th percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (7th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Catch rate#1 / 610 · 91st pct

100.0%

EPA / target#223 / 610 · 64th pct

0.97

TD rate#308 / 610 · 50th pct

6.0%

Yards / catch#333 / 610 · 45th pct

11.6

Explosive rate#356 / 610 · 42nd pct

13.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Receptions#8 / 541 · 98th pct

Long catch#9 / 541 · 98th pct

Rec yards#27 / 541 · 95th pct

989

Rec TDs#65 / 541 · 85th pct

Rush TDs#55 / 299 · 41st pct

Yards / catch#384 / 541 · 29th pct

11.6

Rush yards#248 / 299 · 15th pct

Fumbles lost#197 / 221 · 7th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

53rd → 64th percentile

Explosive rate

69th → 42nd percentile

Catch rate

64th → 91st percentile

TD rate

40th → 50th percentile

Yards / catch

47th → 45th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home6g	5.5	69.2	12.9	0.5
Road7g	7.4	82.0	12.8	0.4

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-76g	5.2	71.2	15.8	0.3
Weeks 8+7g	7.7	80.3	10.7	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Sonny Cumbie

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

82 · #27 of 466 WRs

Unranked recruit. Now #27 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Louisiana Tech	85	989	11.6	6	--
2023	Louisiana Tech	23	284	12.3	2	--
2021	Hawai'i	5	37	7.4	0	--
Career		113	1,310	11.6	8	--

Season	Team
2024	Louisiana Tech	1	1	--	120	--
2023	Louisiana Tech	--	--	--	--	--
2021	Hawai'i	--	--	55	--	--
Career		1	1	55	120	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024

W 25–17

vs Nicholls

1 LOST · 1 FUM · 34 LONG

With P. Rea — 43 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 70 LONG · B. Baker — 207 yds · 1 TD · 2 INT · QBR 15.5 · 22 rush yds (8 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 7 · Middle Tennessee · 3&10 · Q3 · EPA +7.13Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 75 yds for a TD (Buck Buchanan KICK)
Week 11 · Jacksonville State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +6.66Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 86 yds for a TD (Buck Buchanan KICK)
Week 3 · NC State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +5.78Jack Turner pass complete to Tru Edwards for 71 yds for a TD (Buck Buchanan KICK)
Week 8 · New Mexico State · 3&15 · Q3 · EPA +3.68Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 19 yds to the NMSU 41 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Sam Houston · 3&14 · Q2 · EPA +3.65Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 19 yds to the SHSU 38 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Jacksonville State · 3&9 · Q2 · EPA +3.42Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 21 yds to the JVST 42 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · NC State · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.35Jack Turner pass complete to Tru Edwards for 29 yds to the 50 yard line for a 1ST down
Week 8 · New Mexico State · 3&15 · Q4 · EPA +3.08Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 17 yds to the LT 47 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · New Mexico State · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +2.88Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 7 yds for a TD (Buck Buchanan KICK)
Week 11 · Jacksonville State · 3&3 · Q2 · EPA +2.62Evan Bullock pass complete to Tru Edwards for 3 yds for a TD (Buck Buchanan KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week