 He was also named as the league's 26th best player in the "Herald Sun" chief football reporter Mark Robinson's list of the league's best players in 2019.Edwards played his first match for the year in the AFL's fundraising State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match in February, representing his home state of South Australia as part of the allied All-Stars side.He sat out 's first pre-season match that same weekend but returned for the club's final pre-season match against a week later.