Jake Edwards (born 6 January 1988) is an
Australian rules football
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er who played for the
Carlton Football Club in the
Australian Football League
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.
Edwards played
TAC Cup football with the
Western Jets, and was selected in the
2005 AFL National Draft by the
Carlton Football Club with its third round draft pick (#36 overall).
Edwards did not gain senior AFL selection during his first two seasons with the club. He spent 2006 and 2007 playing with Carlton's
VFL
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-affiliate, the
Northern Bullants, although these years were also marred by injury. Edwards made his senior debut for Carlton in the opening game of the
2008 AFL season
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against
Richmond, and played five games for the season. Throughout the early part of his career, he played primarily as a leading forward-pocket.
Edwards shifted into a defensive role in the backline in 2009, and played fourteen games with the Bullants, including its grand final loss, but he did not again gain selection to the Carlton team. He was delisted at the end of the 2009 season.
Edwards played for the Darley Football Netball Club in the
Ballarat Football League in 2010, alongside brother Jarrod. In 2011, he played for
Port Melbourne in the VFL, and was part of the Borough's unbeaten 2011 premiership team; he returned to Darley in 2012, and won the Henderson Medal as the best and fairest player in the Ballarat Football League in 2013. In 2016, he returned to the VFL as a VFL-listed player with the
Geelong reserves.
Edwards' father,
Allan "Butch" Edwards, played a total of 113 games with Richmond,
Collingwood and
Footscray in the 1970s and 1980s. His grandfather
Arthur Edwards played 120 games for Footscray in the 1950s and his great-grandfather
Frank Aked, Sr. played 116 games for Footscray between 1925 and 1932.
Shane O'Bree is Jake's cousin with Allan's sister Margaret being Shane's mother.
In 2021 Edwards was a contestant on the
reality television show ''
Married at First Sight''.
and was matched with Beck Zemek and now dating Sophie Guidolin
References
External links
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Jake Edwards profile in Blueseum
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1988 births
Carlton Football Club players
Preston Football Club (VFA) players
Port Melbourne Football Club players
Western Jets players
Melton Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Living people