Clyde Edwards-Helaire, RB (KC)

Option not picked up

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The Chiefs declined Edwards-Helaire's fifth-year option for 2024, Adam Teicher of ESPN.com reports.

Injuries have prevented Edwards-Helaire from building on his rookie season when he led the team with 803 rushing yards. During the 2022 campaign, the 2020 first-rounder lost the starting job to seventh-round pick Isiah Pacheco and rushed for just 302 yards in 10 games before suffering a high-ankle sprain in Week 11 against the Chargers that ended his regular season. Edwards-Helaire's fifth-year option would have been fully guaranteed at $5.46 million, but now he's a candidate to enter free agency in 2024. This coming season, he figures to work behind Pacheco in a Kansas City backfield that also includes Jerick McKinnon, who the team re-signed Tuesday.

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