The Kansas City Chiefs have waived operating again and former first-round choose Clyde Edwards-Helaire.
The Chiefs introduced the choice Monday afternoon. Shortly earlier than the announcement, Edwards-Helaire launched a press release on social media addressing the Chiefs, Kansas City and the staff’s followers.
“Love ya KC!” Edwards-Helaire wrote. “A household I didn’t know I wanted, y’all made a Kid from Baton Rouge desires come true! To Chiefs Kingdom, its all love and the help I had in troubling instances will ceaselessly be unmatched from you guys! With love!”
Love ya KC! A household I didn’t know I wanted, y’all made a Kid from Baton Rouge desires come true!
To Chiefs Kingdom , its all love and the help I had in troubling instances will ceaselessly be unmatched from you guys! With love! ❤️ 💛-Clydro ✌🏾
— GLYDE (@Clydro_22) December 16, 2024
The Chiefs chosen Edwards-Helaire with the thirty second choose of the primary spherical of the 2020 draft. He was the primary operating again drafted that 12 months after a profession at LSU as an All-SEC operating again for the 2019 Tigers staff that received a nationwide championship behind a historic offense that featured future NFL stars Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chase.
Edwards-Helaire had a standout rookie season with Kansas City in 2020. He tallied 1,100 yards from scrimmage and 5 touchdowns because the featured again for a Chiefs staff that went 13-1 in a COVID-shortened marketing campaign and superior to the Super Bowl received by Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Edwards-Helaire performed three extra seasons with the Chiefs and received Super Bowls in every of the final two seasons. But his position and his manufacturing dwindled in every season after his rookie marketing campaign, and he misplaced his beginning job in 2022 to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco.
Edwards-Helaire hasn’t performed since revealing PTSD analysis
The Chiefs positioned Edwards-Helaire on the non-football sickness checklist Sept. 2 forward of their season opener, and he has not performed in a sport this season. Edwards-Helaire beforehand introduced on July 29 the he is been residing with PTSD.
Living With PTSD is not any small feat, its laborious and really overwhelming . Within the final month Ive Had many flare ups and the Amazing employees right here on the #Chiefs have been serving to me get by some robust instances.
I’ll be again rolling subsequent Practice! All Love , Glydro ❤️💛— GLYDE (@Clydro_22) July 29, 2024
He opened up about his situation and told reporters days later that that the PTSD has resulted in cyclic vomiting syndrome and that he has required hospital stays.
“I’ve PTSD and cyclic vomiting syndrome,” he stated on Aug. 1. “So it is one thing that is sort of neurologically that they only sort of assist me with and stroll by it.
“Sometimes I’m admitted into the hospital, one thing — I can’t cease throwing up. Nothing just about to cease it. … But it is actual, actual unhealthy dehydration, dropping weight actual quick. It’s actually simply, mentally, simply not being there.”
He stated that he is been coping with PTSD since a 2018 capturing incident whereas he was at LSU. He and linebacker Jared Small have been concerned in a deadly capturing when somebody tried to rob them at gunpoint, in response to Baton Rouge police.
Edwards-Helaire described the incident as “a self-defense scenario” and prosecutors decided that the capturing was an occasion of justifiable power. Charges have been by no means filed in opposition to the gamers, and so they have been launched.
He’s since acknowledged that he was the one to drag the set off within the capturing that he stated was to save lots of Small’s life. He thanked his fellow Chiefs together with head coach Andy Reid and tight finish Travis Kelce on “The Pivot” podcast for serving to him cope along with his PTSD.
Edwards-Helaire, 25, didn’t handle on Monday whether or not he intends to proceed pursuing a soccer profession.
