I would think perhaps he saw the writing on the wall when Moore signed. I'm betting it was retire or get cut....he opted to retire.

I don't know if Edwards was even protected in the Ottawa draft.  He said something at the time that he wanted to retire as a Bomber, which I took to mean he wasn't protected because there would be no reason to bring it up if he was.

This is what I was wondering too. He did talk about not going to play in Ottawa at all so I suspect that was strategic so that they could leave him unprotected.