Chiefs cut Clyde Edwards-Helaire after running back’s career derailed by PTSD

Clyde Edwards-Helaire’s rollercoaster career with the Chiefs is over.

Kansas City waived the former first-round pick on Monday as he was buried deep on the depth chart after missing the start of the season with PTSD.

“Love ya KC! A family I didn’t know I needed, y’all made a Kid from Baton Rouge dreams come true!” Edwards-Helaire wrote on X.

“To Chiefs Kingdom , its all love and the support I had in troubling times will forever be unmatched from you guys! With love!”

Clyde Edwards-Helaire #25 of the Kansas City Chiefs warming up before a game against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium

The Chiefs waived Clyde Edwards-Helaire. Getty Images

Edwards-Helaire was the first-round draft pick of the Chiefs in 2020 after helping LSU win the national championship alongside Joe Burrow.

Edwards-Helaire ran for 803 yards and four touchdowns as a rookie and was a crucial part of a Chiefs team that lost to the Buccaneers in the Super Bowl.

However, Edwards-Helaire missed chunks of the following seasons due to injury and eventually fell behind rising star Isiah Pacheco as the team’s starter.

The 25-year-old then started this season on the  NFL’s Reserve/Non-football illness as it was revealed he was battling PTSD.

Clyde Edwards-Helaire of the Kansas City Chiefs stiff arming Anthony Walker of the Cleveland Browns during a football game at Arrowhead Stadium.

Clyde Edwards-Helaire was a first-round draft pick of the Chiefs in 2020. Getty Images

ESPN reported that the PTSD was connected to a 2018 robbery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when he was one of two LSU football players involved in a shooting of a man trying 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 ruled as a justifiable force by a prosecutor.

“Sometimes I’m admitted into the hospital, something I can’t stop throwing up and it’s just, I [don’t] know [anything] pretty much to stop it,” Edwards-Helaire said at the beginning of the season. “Real bad dehydration … but it’s really just mentally just not being there…. Living With PTSD is no small feat, it’s hard and very overwhelming [sic].

Clyde Edwards-Helaire of LSU Tigers running with his arms raised in celebration of a touchdown at a game against Texas Longhorns, 2019.

Clyde Edwards-Helaire celebrates a touchdown for LSU in 2019. Getty Images

“Within the last month Ive Had many flare ups and the Amazing staff here at the #Chiefs have been helping me get through some tough times. I’ll be back rolling next Practice!”

The Chiefs activated Edwards-Helaire in mid-October, but he did not play for the team this season.

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