# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmzm82wsemu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2829993-michigandaily-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-12-30T21:00:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

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Before he could be a star, Donovan Edwards had to wait his turn. 

He bided his time while Hassan Haskins emerged as the Michigan football team’s domineering running back last season, and he did the same as Blake Corum followed in Haskins’ footsteps a year later. He worked his way back from multiple injuries across both his freshman and sophomore seasons, each of which threatened to stunt his growth.

Edwards — a competitor at heart — got antsy. 

“This was the first time in his football life that he wasn’t the man,” Ron Bellamy, Michigan’s receivers coach and Edwards’s high school coach at West Bloomfield, told The Daily Thursday. “But he’s humble. He knew he wasn’t quite ready yet. Whenever his number was ready, he made sure he was ready for it. That’s why he’s having the success he is now.” 

After each one of his breakout performances, reporters asked Edwards about the waiting. Each time, his answer sounded the same. He invoked his spirituality, crediting the Lord and conceded that he knew his time would eventually come. 

“I just had to sit back and wait my turn and show the world what I’m capable of being able to do,” Edwards said Oct. 15 after rushing for 177 yards and two touchdowns against Penn State. 

At that point in the season, Edwards was still playing second fiddle, an important piece in Michigan’s offense but merely the complement to Blake Corum, perhaps the nation’s best running back. But when Corum suffered a torn meniscus Nov. 19 against Illinois, the situation changed. Edwards had to step up. 

“It was like, ‘Well, we can finally see what this kid can do when he gets a bigger share,’ ” Ken Rys, West Bloomfield’s running backs coach, told The Daily. 

Both Bellamy and Rys — like everyone else who knows Edwards well — knew what was coming.

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