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Chiefs' Clyde Edwards-Helaire on NFI checklist, out a minimum of 4 activities

.Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterSep 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ETCloseCovered Chiefs for twenty periods for Kansas City Star.Joined ESPN in 2013KANSAS AREA, Mo.-- Running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has been put on the non-football ailment list due to the Kansas City Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire will definitely skip the very first four games of the period before he's eligible to return.Edwards-Helaire just recently detailed his battles with post-traumatic stress disorder. He skipped many training camp practices as well as wasn't on the technique industry with the Chiefs on Sunday as they started plannings for Thursday night's season opener versus the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire provided a precise date, Dec. 22, 2018, as the begin of his expertise with PTSD. He failed to explain aside from to say he and a close friend discovered themselves in what he phoned "a self-defense circumstance." Edwards-Helaire back then remained in college at LSU.Two LSU football gamers were actually making an effort to market a digital item about that date when some of them fatally fired an 18-year-old male making an effort to burglarize them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, cops mentioned. The authorities really did not determine the gamers, but The Associated Press mentioned that Edwards-Helaire was one of them.Edwards-Helaire was the Chiefs' first-round draught pick in 2020 and also their beginning managing back his first 2 seasons. He dropped the starting project to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 as well as has actually been actually a get ever since.The Chiefs have pair of running backs besides Pacheco on their energetic lineup. One, expert Samaje Perine, is a recent add-on after he was actually released by the Denver Broncos. The other, Carson Steele, is actually a novice who made the staff after a strong training school and preseason.