Clyde Edwards-Helaire’s rollercoaster profession with the Chiefs is over.
Kansas City waived the previous first-round choose on Monday as he was buried deep on the depth chart after lacking the beginning of the season with PTSD.
“Love ya KC! A household I didn’t know I wanted, y’all made a Kid from Baton Rouge goals come true!” Edwards-Helaire wrote on X.
“To Chiefs Kingdom , its all love and the assist I had in troubling instances will eternally be unmatched from you guys! With love!”
Edwards-Helaire was the first-round draft choose of the Chiefs in 2020 after serving to LSU win the nationwide championship alongside Joe Burrow.
Edwards-Helaire ran for 803 yards and 4 touchdowns as a rookie and was a vital a part of a Chiefs workforce that misplaced to the Buccaneers within the Super Bowl.
However, Edwards-Helaire missed chunks of the next seasons because of damage and finally fell behind rising star Isiah Pacheco because the workforce’s starter.
The 25-year-old then began this season on the NFL’s Reserve/Non-football sickness because it was revealed he was battling PTSD.
ESPN reported that the PTSD was linked to a 2018 theft in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when he was one in every of two LSU soccer gamers concerned in a taking pictures of a person making an attempt to rob them.
It is unclear if Edwards-Helaire or LSU teammate Jared Small was the one who fired the gun that killed the robber in what was dominated as a justifiable power by a prosecutor.
“Sometimes I’m admitted into the hospital, one thing I can’t cease throwing up and it’s simply, I [don’t] know [anything] just about to cease it,” Edwards-Helaire mentioned at the start of the season. “Real dangerous dehydration … but it surely’s actually simply mentally simply not being there…. Living With PTSD isn’t any small feat, it’s laborious and really overwhelming [sic].
“Within the final month Ive Had many flare ups and the Amazing workers right here on the #Chiefs have been serving to me get by means of some robust instances. I’ll be again rolling subsequent Practice!”
The Chiefs activated Edwards-Helaire in mid-October, however he didn’t play for the workforce this season.
