MANHATTAN — Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman ruled out running back Dylan Edwards ahead of the Wildcats' Nov. 1 showdown with Texas Tech at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
It will be the fourth entire game that Edwards will miss. His only extended action this season came on Sept. 27 when he rushed for 166 yards and a touchdown in a win over UCF.
"There's something going on with the lower extremity that we continue to do imaging on," Klieman said Monday, Oct. 27. "The imaging we've received (last week) says that it wasn't healed. If it's not healed, he is not gonna play. We're not gonna put him out there."
Edwards' availability has been a question since his first touch of the season when he muffed a punt in a Week 0 loss to Iowa State in Ireland. He left the contest without taking a snap and has only 34 carries for 205 yards and a pair of touchdowns in his four appearances.
He hasn't suited up for the Wildcats since their Oct. 4 loss at Baylor, in which he ran the ball 10 times for 26 yards and a touchdown. Klieman said after the game that he was used sparingly due to his lingering injury.
Klieman said he has yet to discuss the possibility of redshirting this season with Edwards, who would qualify, having not used it in his one year at Colorado or his first season with the Wildcats in 2024.
"Dylan wants to play, but his body's not there yet," Klieman said. "We'll have to revisit that, but I want to just make sure the kid gets healthy. That's the most important thing for me is that he gets healthy."
In Edwards' absence, Joe Jackson has stepped into the starting role and has excelled in recent weeks after a rougher start to the season.
Jackson now leads the team in rushing with 95 carries for 382 yards and a score. He averages four yards per carry and has caught the ball 14 times for 75 yards and a touchdown.
Kansas State hosts No. 13 Texas Tech at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
Wyatt D. Wheeler covers Kansas State athletics for the USA TODAY Network and Topeka Capital-Journal. You can follow him on X at @WyattWheeler_ , contact him at 417-371-6987 or email him at wwheeler@gannett.com
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