Career
Edwards played TAC Cup football with the Western Jets, and was selected in the 2005 American Federation of Labor-Congress National Draft by the Carlton Football Club with its third round draft pick (#36 overall). Edwards did not gain senior American Federation of Labor-Congress selection during his first two seasons with the club He spent 2006 and 2007 playing with Carlton"s VFL-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 American Federation of Labor-Congress season against Richmond, and played five games for the season.
Throughout the early part of his cereer, 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 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. Shane O"Bree is Jake"s cousin with Allan"s sister Margaret being Shane"s mother.
