Podcast: Gabe Fertitta talks about Kansas City Chiefs running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire during his days at Catholic High School in Louisiana

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The National Football League‘s 2020 Kickoff Weekend is here. To celebrate, listen to the High School Football America Podcast featuring Catholic High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) head coach Gabe Fertitta talking about Clyde Edwards-Helaire, whose NFL debut as the Kansas City Chiefs’ starting running back resulted in 138 yards on the ground with a touchdown against the Houston Texans Thursday night.

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Edwards-Helaire, a 2017 graduate of Catholic High School, was the Chiefs first round draft pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.

For two years, Fertitta was Edwards-Helaire’s offensive coordinator under the Bears’ legendary head coach Dale Weiner, who won 317 high school football games as a head coach.

In 2013, Weiner made Catholic High history when he put Edwards-Helaire on the varsity squad, making him the first freshman to play on Friday nights for the Bears.

In the podcast below, Fertitta talks about what happened the first time Edwards-Helaire touched the football in a regular season game.

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Edwards-Helaire is just another in a long-line of Catholic ball carriers to make it to the NFL. The others are: Karl Bernard, Warrick Dunn, Derrius Guice, Travis Minor and Jeremy Stewart.

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Jeff Fisher
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.