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Chiefs' Clyde Edwards-Helaire on NFI checklist, out at least 4 activities

.Adam Teicher, ESPN Workers WriterSep 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ETCloseCovered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star.Joined ESPN in 2013KANSAS METROPOLITAN AREA, Mo.-- Running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has actually been actually positioned on the non-football ailment listing due to the Kansas City Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire will definitely miss the 1st four video games of the period before he's qualified to return.Edwards-Helaire just recently specified his cope post-traumatic stress disorder. He overlooked numerous training camp practices as well as wasn't on the technique area along with the Chiefs on Sunday as they started prep work for Thursday night's season opener against the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire gave an exact time, Dec. 22, 2018, as the start of his experience with PTSD. He failed to explain besides to state he as well as a friend discovered on their own in what he contacted "a self-defense circumstance." Edwards-Helaire at the time was in university at LSU.Two LSU football gamers were attempting to market a digital thing on that day when one of them fatally shot an 18-year-old man trying to rob all of them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, authorities pointed out. The authorities didn't identify the gamers, yet The Associated Push stated that Edwards-Helaire was just one of them.Edwards-Helaire was actually the Chiefs' first-round draft selection in 2020 and their starting running back his 1st two periods. He dropped the beginning project to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 and has actually been a get ever since.The Chiefs have two operating backs aside from Pacheco on their energetic roster. One, pro Samaje Perine, is a current add-on after he was released by the Denver Broncos. The other, Carson Steele, is actually a newbie that created the team after a solid training school as well as preseason.