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NEW ORLEANS — Clyde Edwards-Helaire can smile about it now. About the coaches who thought he was far too small to play running back. About the recruiting rankings that never gave him a fair shake, largely because of one measurement. About the fact that for much of his life, “on a day-to-day basis,” he recalls, Edwards-Helaire has tried to convince the world that his stature would never define him. If only more people listened.
“They just to always seem to have a problem with height, which is something I don’t understand,” he says. “Being a running back, I’ve never seen a hole open vertically.