.Adam Teicher, ESPN Team WriterSep 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ETCloseCovered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas Area Star.Signed Up With ESPN in 2013KANSAS METROPOLITAN AREA, Mo.-- Managing back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has actually been placed on the non-football illness checklist by the Kansas Metropolitan area Chiefs.Edwards-Helaire will certainly overlook the initial 4 activities of the season before he is actually qualified to return.Edwards-Helaire lately outlined his battles with post-traumatic stress disorder. He skipped a number of training camp techniques and also had not been on the strategy field along with the Chiefs on Sunday as they began plannings for Thursday night's season opener versus the Baltimore Ravens.Editor's Picks2 RelatedLast month, Edwards-Helaire offered a precise day, Dec. 22, 2018, as the start of his expertise along with post-traumatic stress disorder. He really did not explain aside from to say he as well as a friend found themselves in what he contacted "a self-defense scenario." Edwards-Helaire at the moment resided in university at LSU.Two LSU regulation football gamers were trying to market a digital item on that particular day when one of all of them fatally shot an 18-year-old guy trying to rob them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, cops stated. The cops didn't pinpoint the gamers, however The Associated Push stated that Edwards-Helaire was one of them.Edwards-Helaire was the Chiefs' first-round draft choice in 2020 and their beginning managing back his 1st pair of periods. He lost the beginning project to then-rookie Isiah Pacheco in 2022 and has been a get ever before since.The Chiefs have 2 operating spines besides Pacheco on their energetic lineup. One, professional Samaje Perine, is actually a current enhancement after he was actually discharged by the Denver Broncos. The other, Carson Steele, is actually a novice who created the crew after a strong training camp as well as preseason.