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Chiefs' Clyde Edwards-Helaire on NFI checklist, out a minimum of 4 games

.Adam Teicher, ESPN Workers WriterSep 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ETCloseCovered Chiefs for twenty seasons for Kansas City Superstar.Joined ESPN in 2013KANSAS METROPOLITAN AREA, Mo.-- Running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has actually been put on the non-football sickness checklist due to the Kansas Area Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire are going to miss the very first 4 video games of the season just before he is actually entitled to return.Edwards-Helaire just recently outlined his cope post-traumatic stress disorder. He overlooked many training school practices and wasn't on the technique field with the Chiefs on Sunday as they began plannings for Thursday night's period opener against the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire supplied an exact time, Dec. 22, 2018, as the beginning of his experience along with PTSD. He really did not go into details aside from to claim he and also a good friend located on their own in what he called "a self-defense circumstance." Edwards-Helaire during the time was in university at LSU.Two LSU regulation football gamers were trying to offer an electronic thing on that date when some of them fatally shot an 18-year-old guy making an effort to rob them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, cops stated. The cops failed to identify the players, however The Associated Push reported that Edwards-Helaire was just one of them.Edwards-Helaire was the Chiefs' first-round draft pick in 2020 and their starting running back his initial 2 times. He shed the starting job to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 and has actually been actually a get ever before since.The Chiefs have two running backs besides Pacheco on their active roster. One, veteran Samaje Perine, is actually a recent addition after he was actually launched due to the Denver Broncos. The other, Carson Steele, is actually a rookie that created the staff after a tough training camp and also preseason.