N/S Chiefs waived RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire (2 Viewers)

[3ParStillDriver]

I really liked him and wanted him to be successful. People in KC labeled him a bust until that robbery incident happened. After that they kinda left him alone and rooted for him, but were always left a bit disappointed in what he brought to the team.

I hope he’s able to get past the PTSD and become mentally healthy and confident.

With that said, he’s not a bad player by any means even with his PTSD and if the Saints wanted to bring him for short yardage plays so he can get a paycheck and work on healing, I find it an admirable concept. We as saints fans would have no resentment spending a first round pick on him and are usually a very supportive fanbase, especially to natives. It might be good for him.

 

[Randy Jones]

I really liked him and wanted him to be successful. People in KC labeled him a bust until that robbery incident happened. After that they kinda left him alone and rooted for him, but were always left a bit disappointed in what he brought to the team.

I hope he’s able to get past the PTSD and become mentally healthy and confident.

With that said, he’s not a bad player by any means even with his PTSD and if the Saints wanted to bring him for short yardage plays so he can get a paycheck and work on healing, I find it an admirable concept. We as saints fans would have no resentment spend a first round pick on him and are usually a very supportive fanbase, especially to natives. It might be good for him.

The incident occurred when he was in college not when was a pro.

 

[JeffODW]

I really liked him and wanted him to be successful. People in KC labeled him a bust until that robbery incident happened. After that they kinda left him alone and rooted for him, but were always left a bit disappointed in what he brought to the team.

I hope he’s able to get past the PTSD and become mentally healthy and confident.

With that said, he’s not a bad player by any means even with his PTSD and if the Saints wanted to bring him for short yardage plays so he can get a paycheck and work on healing, I find it an admirable concept.

Likewise, he went to Catholic high school in Baton Rouge, so if he is comfortable and his family locally, signing onto our practice squad might be a nice way for him to stay close to football and at best, to see if there is a comeback player of the year in his future someday.

At a minimum, he can run plays on the scout team and has enough NFL experience to help teach the other guys how to pass block

 

[JeffODW]

I really liked him and wanted him to be successful. People in KC labeled him a bust until that robbery incident happened. After that they kinda left him alone and rooted for him, but were always left a bit disappointed in what he brought to the team.

I hope he’s able to get past the PTSD and become mentally healthy and confident.

With that said, he’s not a bad player by any means even with his PTSD and if the Saints wanted to bring him for short yardage plays so he can get a paycheck and work on healing, I find it an admirable concept.

Likewise, he went to Catholic high school in Baton Rouge, so if he is comfortable and his family locally, signing onto our practice squad might be a nice way for him to stay close to football and at best, to see if there is a comeback player of the year in his future someday.

At a minimum, he can run plays on the scout team and has enough NFL experience to help teach the other guys how to pass block

 

[dvdman]

He started off good but then had injuries and never was the player the Chiefs drafted him to be. To be honest, I thought they held on to him probably 2 seasons too long.

 

[Doug B]

He started off good but then had injuries and never was the player the Chiefs drafted him to be.

This is the tough part for Clyde Edwards-Helaire. He has a lot of heart and a great motor, but he doesn't have that elite physical ability.

He's not a big guy built to absorb punishment. Not to say CEH is not tough ... just that he's smaller than people think -- about the same build as Dalton Hilliard, but a little shorter. In today's NFL, with defensive players heavier and faster than back in Hilliard's day, CEH was taking a lot of punishment that his body couldn't hold up against. He did have a good 2020 rookie season statistically -- but ended the year on IR. He lost six weeks of 2021 with a knee injury, the lost the last seven games of 2022 to another injury.

All that said: There's no reason that if his body has gotten right CEH can't have a successful second act as a complementary RB the way, say, Tim Hightower or Latavius Murray did (though those guys were a lot bigger). He can't be used as the Thunder to Kamara's Lightning, but CEH can spell Kamara here and there and provide guidance to younger guys in the RB room. Make an occasional spot start without being lost on his assignments.

 

[texasjefe]

CEH is a forever fan favorite around here from being a starter on a generational LSU team.

But what we need in the Saints' RB room is an unknown baller like Isiah Pacheco, a 7th rounder from Rutgers.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

He's kinda the Jacob Hestor type guy. Played with heart and it got him the recognition. i think he could have succeeded in the NFL if it wsn't for his issues. he's not an everydown back and is a rotate 3rd down kinda guy .
I am not gonna judge, because i've never taken a human life and do not know the trauma that brings.
He used to live next door to my In laws, for a couple years. He was renting a house in Giesmar. The kid, Jared Small, who was with him during that incidrent lived there also. There were always LSU players in and out of there. Bunch of guys with no shirts.. my daughter didn't mind that though..lol I met him a few times and was a good guy. he moved there before the draft and moved out 2 years later, even though he wasn't there very often since he was in Kansas City . but his truck was so high, he could walk under the side mirrors...

 

[sfidc3]

Love him, gets the absolute most out of his ability.....he wasn't the most athletic RB but had great vision and instincts....unfortunately injuries to these types of guys can be career derailing.....

 

[Saintman2884]

This is the tough part for Clyde Edwards-Helaire. He has a lot of heart and a great motor, but he doesn't have that elite physical ability.

He's not a big guy built to absorb punishment. Not to say CEH is not tough ... just that he's smaller than people think -- about the same build as Dalton Hilliard, but a little shorter. In today's NFL, with defensive players heavier and faster than back in Hilliard's day, CEH was taking a lot of punishment that his body couldn't hold up against. He did have a good 2020 rookie season statistically -- but ended the year on IR. He lost six weeks of 2021 with a knee injury, the lost the last seven games of 2022 to another injury.

All that said: There's no reason that if his body has gotten right CEH can't have a successful second act as a complementary RB the way, say, Tim Hightower or Latavius Murray did (though those guys were a lot bigger). He can't be used as the Thunder to Kamara's Lightning, but CEH can spell Kamara here and there and provide guidance to younger guys in the RB room. Make an occasional spot start without being lost on his assignments.

Being a much smaller, shorter RB does present difficult, hard-to-overcome challenges for a guy who's body can't take being given the ball 25-30 times a game over entire NFL seasons as a premier weapon, which is what the Chiefs essentially thought they were getting back in 2020. I do agree with you that if CEH had played in the NFL 35-40 years ago, there's a decent chance he has a lot more success then now. Strangely I have seen quite a few RB's over the past 10-15 years, Doug that also didn't possess CEH's elite, play making abilities, and they ended up playing (and starting) a lot longer then he has. Some weren't too much taller then he was but were instead a lot more durable.

 

[Saintman2884]

Love him, gets the absolute most out of his ability.....he wasn't the most athletic RB but had great vision and instincts....unfortunately injuries to these types of guys can be career derailing.....

I'm trying to sound as sympathetic and understanding as possible in saying this, but why do I have this subconscious feeling that his career mightve evolved a bit differently if it weren't for the intense PTSD he's been trying to mediate since that botched robbery attempt LSU some years ago?

That's a very difficult process to try and successfully communicate properly some of the terrible symptoms many experience on a regular basis after traumatic experiences CEH went through. It can be a Hercullean task for trauma specialists or bereavement counselors to even get those suffering to open up.

 

[lurking around]

Saints signed him to practice squad

 

[St. Geezy]

The incident occurred when he was in college not when was a pro.

There were two…he had a shooting incident he was involved in at the Chiefs SB parade also.

 

[RaginSaint93]

I say bring him home

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