Chiefs RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire is doing whatever it takes to win
Winning can be a feeling that is somewhat addicting. Once you taste it, you will never want to return to that losing lifestyle. No, imagine you won, but you didn't really play. You celebrated because, well, you now have a Super Bowl ring. However, something still needs to be added. You feel like you didn't […]
Winning can be a feeling that is somewhat addicting. Once you taste it, you will never want to return to that losing lifestyle. No, imagine you won, but you didn't really play. You celebrated because, well, you now have a Super Bowl ring. However, something still needs to be added. You feel like you didn't contribute, but it wasn't really your fault.
I'd imagine that's how Kansas City Chiefs running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire feels. He didn't play in the Super Bowl, or any game after Week 10, for that matter. Watching your team get on the field to win a ring, and you not being able to help them, has to be a weird feeling.
Although you can tell, all Edwards-Helaire wants to do is win. That's what he was preparing to do before the Super Bowl.
"I practiced that week, the whole week," Edwards-Helaire told the media during OTAs. "I played receiver that week. I played the Z and the Zebra. I pretty much played every position, with the exception of quarterback and O-Line, throughout practicing that week. So, I was, in my mind I was kind of thinking that (I would play). I got activated on Tuesday or Wednesday of that week. I really don't know. Initially, it was really just going out there, and I didn't think I would play. I started practicing, coach kind of told me he (trusted me) to keep things going smoothly for the biggest game of the year. So, why not have you go out there and play receiver and keep everything rolling?"
He was willing to do whatever was necessary when his number was called if it meant getting on that field. Now, he has the same mindset in training camp.
"Like it's been every year, whenever my number's called, I will be there to do my job and do what I need to do as far as being on the field as a running back Edwards-Helaire explained. "Never really been a question on what I can – you know what's going on, but it's been whenever my number's called, I just go."
The Chiefs could use CEH now, as their starting running back, Isiah Pacheco, is hurt and won't be cleared for contact until the third preseason game. However, if CEH wants an important role, it will be challenging. We know about Jerick Mckinnon's role and how he has established himself with this team. But Deneric Prince is a guy who has the coaches raving.
Either way, CEH wants to win.
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