Kansas City will be shorthanded in the backfield to begin the season. The Chiefs placed Clyde Edwards-Helaire on the reserve/NFI list on Monday, as detailed by ESPN’s Field Yates. 
As a result, Edwards-Helaire will be sidelined for at least the first four games of the season. Isiah Pacheco remains in place to handle lead back duties, while undrafted rookie Carson Steele made the roster after impressing during training camp and the preseason. Edwards-Helaire missed considerable time during training camp as well as Sunday’s practice, though, Yates’ colleague Adam Teicher notes. Today’s move thus comes as little surprise.
Edwards-Helaire, 25, entered the league with high expectations as the top running back in his class. The No. 32 pick in the 2020 draft racked up 1,100 scrimmage yards in his rookie season, but since then he has seen his usage rate and production drop with each passing season. A free agent departure during the spring would have been sensible since it would have provided him a fresh start. Instead, Edwards-Helaire remained in Kansas City on a one-year deal. The pact includes $1.33MM guaranteed and can reach a maximum value of $1.7MM.
The LSU alum logged a snap share of only 22% last season, but the Chiefs’ decision not to re-sign Jerick McKinnon left open the possibility for an increased pass-catching role in 2024. Kansas City recently added Samaje Perine, however, and the veteran is in place to handle third-down duties. Perine made 50 receptions last year with the Broncos, but he was let go with other options in place in the Denver backfield.
Pacheco received a career-high 205 carries in 2023, and he should again log a heavy workload on early downs in particular this season. Perine and Steele will offer complementary options in the backfield while Edwards-Helaire recovers. The latter will need a strong showing in 2024 to land another deal with the Chiefs (or to boost his 2025 free agent prospects). Today’s news is obviously not an encouraging start to the campaign in Edwards-Helaire’s case.
PTSD from what exactly?
While at LSU someone pulled a gun on him and some teammates and attempted to rob them.
Not to talk down but really? That’s nothing, I am not going into my life story but that is minor in comparison with what so many people deal with on a day to day basis in this country.
Outside of this country we have slave labor camps in different regions of the world forced to work for the benefit of the first world countries. As long as we have are smart phones we turn a blind eye to the harsh reality of where the cobalt used to power are phones is mined. Forced child labor in the Congo powers our smart devices. I wonder if they have PTSD or if they even live long enough to find out.
Champagne problems as far as I can tell, he needs to get over his s#*t.
Brave of you to so openly be an idiot. I loved the part where you got to decide how other people are supposed to feel and react to things that happened to them and not you.
Why did you even start your post with not to talk down and then go on to talk down on him the whole post after that? You haven’t ever been robbed at gunpoint and your post makes that perfectly clear. On top of that happening he’s 3rd on the depth chart and shouldn’t affect the team being out as long as Pacheco and Perine stay healthy. Steele could pass him on the depth chart too if he gets to play and does anything while CEH is out.
I have been shot twice and stabbed once. Like I said I aint telling my story but people deal with all kinds of nonsense in this world friend. He got robbed at gun point? When I was 16 I had a guy walk up and point a gun to my head outside of a house party and demanded my wallet. I told him to go ahead and pull the trigger cause he would be doing me the favor. I didn’t give him my wallet and he walked on cause he knew he wasn’t dangerous, he was just acting like he was. I have many stories friend I just don’t cry about them. God bless and take care.
His trauma probably increased realizing half the chiefs players are actually armed felons and one of them probably is responsible for robbing him