Where is Clyde Edwards-Helaire? That’s what fantasy football players want to know.
If you’re a glutton for punishment like me (every year I ask myself why I continue to put myself through the rigors of fantasy football, the most demoralizing of hobbies), you know Week 13 is a make-or-break week in the fantasy-sphere. Some of us are safely in the postseason (and perhaps eyeing a first-round bye) while others have to sweat it out, needing a win in the final week of the regular season to punch their ticket to the fantasy playoffs.
Chiefs running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire, the NFL’s second-leading rusher among rookies (Jaguars prodigy James Robinson paces all first-year players with 968 rushing yards), was questionable heading into Sunday’s divisional bout with Denver (who actually plan to use a quarterback this week after throwing poor Kendall Hinton to the wolves against New Orleans) after missing Thursday and Friday’s practices with a non-COVID illness. Despite this, the former LSU Tiger was seemingly given the green light, not showing up on the Chiefs’ inactive list ahead of Sunday night’s game at Arrowhead.
Edwards-Helaire is a set-it-and-forget-it fantasy starter when healthy, though apparently he was much sicker than the Chiefs let on as he has yet to see the field in Week 13. Predictably, CEH owners are not happy with this development, taking to social media to express their angst.
Occasionally, injured or sick players will dress with the intention of only playing in an emergency, which appears to be the case with Edwards-Helaire who, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, is battling the flu. That would explain why midseason addition Le’Veon Bell has handled all of KC’s rushing work to this point. Edwards-Helaire was started in 76 percent of Yahoo leagues this week so, odds are, you probably know someone who’s about to get a goose egg in fantasy and may miss the playoffs because of it.
The only thing worse than that would be if you started BOTH Edwards-Helaire and Tyreek Hill, who was robbed of a miraculous 40-yard touchdown when officials ruled this pass incomplete. Inexplicably, Chiefs coach Andy Reid elected not to challenge the play, instead summoning the punt unit on fourth-and-10.
Feel better, Clyde, though a little heads up from the Chiefs would have been nice.
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