Less than 5 years in the past, the defending-champion Kansas City Chiefs chosen operating again Clyde Edwards-Helaire with the ultimate decide of the primary spherical of the 2020 NFL Draft. On Monday, the group waived Edwards-Helaire with three video games to go within the 2024 common season.
Edwards-Helaire, 25, was averaging a career-low 3.2 yards-per-carry this season. In 15 video games, he rushed for 223 yards and one landing on 70 carries. He added 188 receiving yards on 17 receptions.
Edwards-Helaire bid adieu to Kansas City shortly after he was launched through X:
Love ya KC! A household I did not know I wanted, y’all made a Kid from Baton Rouge goals come true! To Chiefs Kingdom, its all love and the help I had in troubling instances will without end be unmatched from you guys! With love!
Edwards-Helaire was a part of LSU’s undefeated, nationwide championship-winning 2019 group. He led the nation with 16 landing runs that yr whereas averaging a whopping 6.6 yards-per-carry. That success led to him being the one operating again taken within the first spherical of the next spring’s NFL Draft.
As a rookie, Edwards-Helaire put up first rate numbers whereas serving to the Chiefs make a return journey to the Super Bowl. An harm hampered his manufacturing in 2021, nonetheless. In 2022, one other harm and the emergence of then-rookie Isiah Pacheco led to a decreased function for Edwards-Helaire, who was inactive for Kansas City’s Super Bowl win over the Eagles.
Edwards-Helaire re-signed with Kansas City this offseason after the group elected to not decide up his fifth-year choice the earlier offseason. He acquired three begins this season, together with consecutive begins in Weeks 13 and 14. He amassed 169 all-purpose yards in these recreation that included 64 receiving yards (whereas catching every of his 4 targets) in Kansas City’s Week 14 win over the Patriots.
Despite that manufacturing, the Chiefs clearly deemed Edwards-Helaire expendable, and can proceed their pursuit of an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl win with out him.
