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

.Adam Teicher, ESPN Team WriterSep 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ETCloseCovered Chiefs for twenty seasons for Kansas Area Celebrity.Joined ESPN in 2013KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- Operating back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has been placed on the non-football illness checklist by the Kansas Area Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire will certainly miss out on the very first 4 video games of the season before he's qualified to return.Edwards-Helaire just recently specified his cope post-traumatic stress disorder. He missed out on many training camp techniques and had not been on the practice industry with the Chiefs on Sunday as they began prep work for Thursday night's period opener versus the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire provided a particular date, Dec. 22, 2018, as the start of his adventure along with PTSD. He didn't go into details aside from to mention he as well as a pal located on their own in what he contacted "a self-defense scenario." Edwards-Helaire during the time was in college at LSU.Two LSU regulation football gamers were actually trying to offer an electronic thing on that particular date when some of all of them fatally shot an 18-year-old guy attempting to rob all of them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, cops said. The cops really did not pinpoint the players, however The Associated Push mentioned that Edwards-Helaire was among them.Edwards-Helaire was actually the Chiefs' first-round draught selection in 2020 as well as their starting managing back his first pair of periods. He dropped the beginning project to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 as well as has actually been actually a book ever before since.The Chiefs have 2 operating spines besides Pacheco on their energetic roster. One, professional Samaje Perine, is a recent enhancement after he was launched by the Denver Broncos. The various other, Carson Steele, is a newbie who created the group after a sturdy training camp as well as preseason.