KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Operating again Clyde Edwards-Helaire has been positioned on the non-football sickness checklist by the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
Edwards-Helaire will miss the primary 4 video games of the season earlier than he is eligible to return.
Edwards-Helaire lately detailed his battles with PTSD. He missed a number of coaching camp practices and wasn’t on the observe discipline with the Chiefs on Sunday as they started preparations for Thursday evening’s season opener towards the Baltimore Ravens.
Final month, Edwards-Helaire offered a precise date, Dec. 22, 2018, as the beginning of his expertise with PTSD. He did not go into particulars aside from to say he and a pal discovered themselves in what he known as “a self-defense state of affairs.” Edwards-Helaire on the time was in school at LSU.
Two LSU soccer gamers have been making an attempt to promote an digital merchandise on that date when considered one of them fatally shot an 18-year-old man making an attempt to rob them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police mentioned. The police did not establish the gamers, however The Related Press reported that Edwards-Helaire was considered one of them.
Edwards-Helaire was the Chiefs’ first-round draft decide in 2020 and their beginning operating again his first two seasons. He misplaced the beginning job to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 and has been a reserve ever since.
The Chiefs have two operating backs along with Pacheco on their lively roster. One, veteran Samaje Perine, is a current addition after he was launched by the Denver Broncos. The opposite, Carson Steele, is a rookie who made the staff after a robust coaching camp and preseason.
