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By James Brizuela
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The Kansas City Chiefs are entering the 2024 season with hopes they can be the first team in NFL history to secure a third Super Bowl in a row. The team is chock full of stars at every position, including running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire.
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Edwards-Helaire has been one of the brightest spots on the Chiefs. Thursday, he opened up about a harrowing situation that occurred in 2018 and how he attributes it to his battle with PTSD.
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Edwards-Helaire spoke about his journey, and the situation he found himself in at LSU when a gunman attempted to rob him and a fellow student.
"It just takes the courage to talk about it and having PTSD and dealing with it, once people kind of bring it up, it's not something that I always want to talk about because I never really know how my body will react or my mind," Edwards-Helaire said Thursday. "It's just something that I can't really pinpoint or know exactly what's going to happen. But just having that safe space and right now, within the past two years and actually being open with my dad — there were points that he told me things that I feel like he never told anybody, even guys that were part of his platoon, guys he was deployed with probably haven't heard the stories or known exactly what he's going through, but they haven't talked about it."
According to a report, on Dec. 22, 2018, Edwards-Helaire and LSU teammate Jared Small had met up with a stranger the pair had not met before. The man in question then brandished a gun and attempted to rob Edwards-Helaire and Small.
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One of the players then shot the would-be robber, identified as Kobe Johnson. Edwards-Helaire and Small were not charged with a crime, as they were acting in self-defense. The police never revealed which player fired the fatal shots on Johnson.
Despite moving on in his football career, Edwards-Helaire has opened up about his struggles with PTSD related to that incident.
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Some of the struggles included being admitted to the hospital because of nonstop vomiting and having to be excused from Chiefs practice with what was described as an "illness." Even though the incident happened years ago, Edwards-Helaire is still reminded of the feelings from that harrowing incident.
"I would say with that happening at such a young age, the first couple years you just try to block everything out and at some point I'm going to get over it, and just start to realize that just doesn't happen," Edwards-Helaire said.
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