Top 5 safeties in college football for 2018

#5. Mike Edwards, Kentucky

Edwards impressed his coaches as a freshman and started the final five games of the season. Over the last two years, he has started all 26 games, in which he recorded 196 tackles, seven interceptions, and 15 pass deflections. Edwards slips by blockers and forces negative plays (9.5 tackles for loss since 2016). He is a textbook tackler, who is very reliable in the open field.

The Wildcat safety is very hands-on in man-coverage and has quicks to stay attached to receivers out of their breaks, although he will have some flags thrown against him. He was also sent off the edge quite a bit. Edwards can be fooled by pump fakes and sometimes lets them take him out of the play completely. Nevertheless, he comes up huge when his team really needs him, sealing two games with an INT last season, he plays with tenacious pursuit at all times and daps his teammates up constantly.