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

.Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterSep 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ETCloseCovered Chiefs for 20 periods for Kansas Metropolitan area Superstar.Signed Up With ESPN in 2013KANSAS URBAN AREA, Mo.-- Operating back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has been placed on the non-football ailment listing by the Kansas City Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire are going to skip the initial four video games of the period just before he's qualified to return.Edwards-Helaire just recently specified his battles with PTSD. He overlooked a number of training school strategies and also had not been on the strategy area along with the Chiefs on Sunday as they started preparations for Thursday evening's season opener against the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire offered a particular time, Dec. 22, 2018, as the start of his experience along with post-traumatic stress disorder. He didn't specify besides to say he as well as a good friend found themselves in what he phoned "a self-defense circumstance." Edwards-Helaire at the moment resided in college at LSU.Two LSU soccer gamers were actually making an effort to offer a digital thing on that particular date when among them fatally shot an 18-year-old male trying to rob them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, authorities pointed out. The authorities really did not identify the players, but The Associated Push stated that Edwards-Helaire was one of them.Edwards-Helaire was actually the Chiefs' first-round draught pick in 2020 as well as their starting operating back his very first pair of seasons. He shed the beginning task to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 as well as has been actually a reserve ever before since.The Chiefs have two operating backs in addition to Pacheco on their energetic lineup. One, veteran Samaje Perine, is a current addition after he was actually discharged by the Denver Broncos. The other, Carson Steele, is a rookie that made the crew after a solid training school as well as preseason.