KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Working again Clyde Edwards-Helaire has been positioned on the non-football sickness record 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 not too long ago 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 night time’s season opener towards the Baltimore Ravens.
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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 apart from to say he and a pal discovered themselves in what he referred to as “a self-defense scenario.” Edwards-Helaire on the time was in school at LSU.
Two LSU soccer gamers had been attempting to promote an digital merchandise on that date when one among them fatally shot an 18-year-old man attempting to rob them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police stated. The police did not determine the gamers, however The Related Press reported that Edwards-Helaire was one among them.
Edwards-Helaire was the Chiefs’ first-round draft choose in 2020 and their beginning working 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 working 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 workforce after a robust coaching camp and preseason.
