College football: Big Ten Network suspends analyst Braylon Edwards

The Big Ten Network in­def­i­nite­ly sus­pend­ed col­lege foot­ball an­a­lyst Braylon Ed­wards for vio­lat­ing its so­cial me­di­a pol­icy af­ter the form­er Mich­i­gan re­ceiv­er tweet­ed harsh crit­i­cism of the Wol­ver­ines and Jim Har­baugh's coach­ing.

BTN would not el­abo­rate on why Ed­wards was sus­pend­ed. But on Sat­ur­day, when the 14th-ranked Wol­ver­ines lost 24-17 at No. 12 Notre Dame, Ed­wards post­ed to his Twit­ter ac­count that Mich­i­gan foot­ball was "trash." He spe­cif­i­cal­ly tar­get­ed cen­ter Ce­sar Ruiz and quarterback Shea Pat­ter­son.

After learning of his suspension, Edwired fired off another tweet at his alma mater that ended : "Last thing I will ask and really think about this before you get mad ... is Michigan better than Iowa?" He apologized in part later in the day, saying he "should not have attacked Ruiz and Patterson that hard or period individually" but said Michigan "still needs to step up."

Har­baugh said at his Mon­day news con­fer­ence that "if some­bod­y wants to at­tack char­ac­ter of any­body on the ballclub, come af­ter me — not the young­sters."

Ed­wards was an All-America in 2004 and is the school's ca­reer lead­er in catch­es, yards and touch­down catch­es.

Il­li­nois seni­or re­ceiv­er Mike Dudek will miss the rest of the sea­son be­cause of a knee in­ju­ry suf­fered against Kent State on Sat­ur­day, the third ma­jor knee in­ju­ry of his ca­reer. Dudek missed all of the 2015 and 2016 seas­ons and five games last year because of in­ju­ries.