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

.Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterSep 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ETCloseCovered Chiefs for 20 periods for Kansas Area Celebrity.Participated In ESPN in 2013KANSAS AREA, Mo.-- Running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has actually been actually placed on the non-football sickness checklist due to the Kansas Metropolitan area Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire will skip the very first 4 video games of the season before he's qualified to return.Edwards-Helaire recently outlined his battles with PTSD. He missed out on many training school practices as well as wasn't on the practice field along with the Chiefs on Sunday as they began prep work for Thursday evening's season opener against the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire supplied a precise date, Dec. 22, 2018, as the begin of his knowledge with post-traumatic stress disorder. He didn't explain besides to say he as well as a good friend discovered on their own in what he got in touch with "a self-defense condition." Edwards-Helaire at that time was in college at LSU.Two LSU soccer gamers were attempting to sell a digital product on that particular date when some of them fatally fired an 18-year-old male attempting to rob all of them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police mentioned. The authorities failed to determine the gamers, but The Associated Press disclosed that Edwards-Helaire was just one of them.Edwards-Helaire was the Chiefs' first-round draft pick in 2020 and also their starting operating back his first 2 periods. He shed the beginning job to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 and has actually been a get ever before since.The Chiefs have pair of running backs aside from Pacheco on their energetic lineup. One, veteran Samaje Perine, is actually a recent addition after he was actually launched by the Denver Broncos. The various other, Carson Steele, is actually a newbie who created the team after a tough training camp as well as preseason.