Travis Kelce is helping a Chiefs teammate deal with PTSD after 18-year-old was shot dead in alleged 2018 robbery in Louisiana

Travis Kelce has been credited by Kansas City Chiefs teammate Clyde Edwards-Helaire pinch helping him woody pinch PTSD, years aft an 18-year-old was changeable and killed erstwhile allegedly trying to rob him astatine gunpoint.

The incident occurred successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana successful December 2018, erstwhile Edwards-Helaire and his past LSU teammate Jared Small were trying to waste an physics item.

Kobe Johnson was nan teen who was killed and constabulary person ne'er said who fired nan fatal shot. But nan repercussions of that time are still felt by Edwards-Helaire, who has missed believe clip precocious owed to PTSD.

Speaking this week, Edwards-Helaire opened up connected really Kelce has kept a adjacent oculus connected him during Kansas City's believe campy for nan upcoming NFL season.

'It’s really conscionable mentally conscionable not being there. And it’s 1 of those things wherever early on, for illustration guys who benignant of salary attention, Trav (Travis Kelce), Kadarius (Toney) astatine times, they tin moreover - they'll cognize for illustration up of clip (that he's struggling). Like, ‘Okay, Clyde mightiness not - he’s not laughing, he’s not giggling, he’s not himself.

He added that Kelce and Toney said: 'We conscionable sewage to make judge we are checking connected him arsenic nan person, not to conscionable beryllium retired present nan power giver, nan laugher, [or] nan feline that benignant of keeps nan locker room going.'

Edwards-Helaire said this week that 'a defense situation' connected December 22, 2018 is nan commencement of his troubles.

'I would opportunity that's astir apt wherever a mostly of things stem from but I wouldn't needfully opportunity everything stemmed from that,' nan 25-year-old explained.

'I person champion friends that passed distant astatine young ages from weapon unit and conscionable not being successful nan correct places astatine nan correct clip and conscionable knowing that I person group that are adjacent to maine aliases astir maine who could beryllium successful nan aforesaid spots that I am.

'My first mates of years, you conscionable effort to artifact everything retired and it's like, 'Oh, astatine immoderate constituent I'm going to get complete it'". And you commencement to recognize that that conscionable doesn't happen. 

'You get older and you realize, 'Hey, nary matter nan age, nary matter nan person, nary matter nan situation, everyone needs thief astatine immoderate point.' It takes courageousness to talk astir it and having PTSD and dealing pinch it erstwhile group benignant of bring it up, it is not thing that I'd ever want to talk about. 

'I ne'er really cognize really my assemblage will respond aliases my mind, it is conscionable thing that I can't really pinpoint aliases cognize precisely what's going to happen.

'I consciousness for illustration talking is simply a large thing, but it is conscionable getting complete that hump personally, being capable to cognize that honestly, conscionable everybody goes done things bully and bad. It's a stepping stone. I'm conscionable 25 years aged and trying to unrecorded nan remainder of my life healthy.

'Sometimes I americium admitted into nan infirmary and I can't extremity throwing up. Nothing tin extremity it. Real bad dehydration, dropping weight existent accelerated but existent mentally, not being there.' 

Edwards-Helaire besides tweeted astir dealing pinch PTSD earlier this week, saying: 'Living With PTSD is nary mini feat, its difficult and very overwhelming. 

'Within nan past period I've Had galore flare ups and nan Amazing unit present astatine nan #Chiefs person been helping maine get done immoderate reliable times. 

'I'll beryllium backmost rolling adjacent Practice! All Love, Glydro.'

The Chiefs commencement nan adjacent NFL play connected September 5, against Baltimore Ravens astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City.

Edwards-Helaire and his squad are lining up an historical changeable astatine winning a third-straight Super Bowl victory.