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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 20 times for Kansas Urban area Superstar.Signed Up With ESPN in 2013KANSAS AREA, Mo.-- Managing back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has been actually positioned on the non-football sickness checklist due to the Kansas City Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire are going to miss the initial four activities of the season before he is actually entitled to return.Edwards-Helaire lately detailed his cope post-traumatic stress disorder. He skipped a number of training camp practices and also had not been on the technique field with the Chiefs on Sunday as they started prep work for Thursday evening's time opener against the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire supplied a specific date, Dec. 22, 2018, as the beginning of his expertise with PTSD. He really did not specify aside from to state he and a close friend found themselves in what he got in touch with "a self-defense circumstance." Edwards-Helaire back then resided in university at LSU.Two LSU football players were attempting to offer a digital thing about that day when some of them fatally shot an 18-year-old guy attempting to rob them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, authorities pointed out. The authorities failed to determine the gamers, but The Associated Push stated that Edwards-Helaire was among them.Edwards-Helaire was actually the Chiefs' first-round draft choice in 2020 and their starting operating back his initial two times. He dropped the starting task to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 and also has been a get ever before since.The Chiefs possess two managing backs besides Pacheco on their energetic lineup. One, pro Samaje Perine, is a latest add-on after he was actually discharged due to the Denver Broncos. The other, Carson Steele, is actually a newbie that created the crew after a tough training camp as well as preseason.