Domestic violence allegations against Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice surfaced in early January. A month and a half later, accuser Dacoda Jones – Rice’s ex-girlfriend – filed a civil lawsuit against him in a Dallas court on Monday, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports. She is seeking more than $1MM from Rice.
According to the alleged victim, Rice repeatedly assaulted her between December 2023 and July 2025. Last month, she displayed photos of injuries that Rice allegedly inflicted on her. Jones, who has two children with Rice, claims most of the alleged abuse occurred when she was pregnant. Accusations first emerged last month.
“Rice has grabbed, choked, strangled, pushed, thrown, scratched, hit, and headbutted Ms. Jones, as well as hit her with inanimate objects,” the lawsuit says (via Michael Rothstein and Nate Taylor of ESPN).
In response, Rice’s attorney Sean Lindsay stated (via Adam Schefter of ESPN): “On October 9th, 2025, well after the parties’ relationship had ended, Ms. Jones stated under penalty of perjury in a sworn Affidavit for a Non-Prosecution that ‘Mr. Rice and I had a verbal argument, but he did not punch me.’ We will allow the legal process to run its course and have no further comment at this time.”
In a statement of their own, the Chiefs said, “The club is aware [of the lawsuit] and remains in communication with the National Football League.”
The NFL, which began investigating Jones’ claims last month, said Wednesday that “the matter remains under review.” It’s unclear if the league will discipline Rice in this instance, but it has already handed him one suspension in his three-year career. Rice served a six-game ban to open last season stemming from a hit-and-run crash in Dallas in March 2024. Rice, then facing eight felony counts, turned himself in a week and a half later.
After pleading guilty to felony collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury, Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years’ probation. He was also ordered to pay $115K to the injured victims.
In May 2024, mere weeks after Rice’s street-racing incident, he was the subject of an investigation for alleged assault on a photographer. The accuser did not press charges, but it continued a disturbing trend of off-field problems dating to Rice’s time at SMU.
During the 2023 pre-draft process, NFL teams became aware of an alleged incident in which Rice or a member of his party fired multiple shots into an empty car belonging to a member of SMU’s basketball team. It wasn’t enough to prevent the Chiefs from using the 55th pick in the draft on Rice, who has been an important cog in their offense when available.
Rice played a 16-game rookie season and helped the Chiefs to a Super Bowl title, but he has combined for just 12 appearances since then. An LCL tear limited Rice to four games in 2024, and he had nine absences last season as a result of his suspension and a concussion. He’s on track to play the final year of his rookie contract in 2026.
Who could have seen this coming?
I believe in the legal process and all but this guy is a POS!
Such a waste of talent, would command $30-$35 per on the open market.
He will be lucky to see a 2nd contract provided he is not banned for life.
It is almost like these guys with red flags have more and more of them. And these are the only ones we know about. Innocent until proven guilty and all that, but I am thinking this goes away with some hush money and the cycle with this guy will continue. It is part of the reason why I just can’t support the NFL anymore.
@ Ed…I’m so sick of this. I’m not going to type a novel like I’d like, but these younger guys need to realize the world they live in. Putting your hands (or ‘inanimate objects’) on a woman is not ok and is going to get you in trouble. As it should. So many entitled idiots (who are unbelievably gifted athletically) running the NFL.
This isn’t something new. Jim Brown is well known to be somebody that likes to put his hands on women. It is like some kind of out in the wide open secret or something.
Hopefully his teammates didn’t get rid of their “Free 4” shirts from last season. It can become an annual tradition!
I am ashamed that they existed.
Seth.. Just despicable.
Pro athletes ain’t too bright
John Urschel who was a Guard for the Ravens was a genius level mathematician and member of MIT.
He retired early after suffering a concussion and made the smart decision to save his brain over destroying it to play football.
Go back to MLB, ILBB.
Yikes. Go back to not stalking me.
I’ll always call out baseball people who come onto football sites and try to act like they know something when they clearly don’t.
@Big Bunts…you don’t see this in the NHL or MLB. Not as prevalent anyways. Can’t lump all pro athletes together.
I think you better take a look at baseball a little more. There are a lot of baddies in that sport as well for things far worse than striking a woman.
Flush him down the toilet already
Keep yourself out of trouble at his level of play? Easily making $20+ million a year from now, even with the injury. Keep endangering and harming other people and having to pay out settlements and legal fees? That $6 million rookie contract can be wiped out awfully quickly.
Rashee Rice saw his shadow signaling the NFL offseason has officially begun.
That shadow might have a badge and wear a wire.
Again I’m not saying he didn’t do it but I always find it interesting the main priority is to get large sums of money rather than to lock up someone who harmed you. Very interesting
Would you rather gain a life-changing amount of money or see the person in jail? Could hire bodyguards to protect you from the other person. It would be very nice to see him in jail i’m sure, but one will change her life and the other will do nothing (selfishly)
Which is my point. It’s funny how flexible the judicial system is. Imagine reaching a settlement with someone who tried to kill you randomly at a Chevron gas station lmao
Part of it is the difference between criminal and civil court. In criminal court the jury needs to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Thats very difficult with domestic violence. Civil court convicts if they 51% think he’s guilty.
There’s a lower level of proof for civil cases, and they allow stuff like hearsay more openly. Mostly, though, people will cooperate for money. Prosecution takes an absolute ton of patience and follow up, and most cases fall flat because a witness or victim doesn’t want to show or loses patience with the process. Trust me, it sucks.
It does suck and it baffles me because what if I was alleged to have beaten my ex girlfriend three times and we reach a settlement for $6mill. And then find out I choke a girl at a bar to death a year later. Wouldn’t it make the court look bad if I had shown years of abuse signs but it was thrown out because of finances but then I ended a woman’s life that could have been prevented if I had been thrown in jail instead of given an offer to quiet my ex girlfriend with cash? That’s always bothered me
The other point you need to consider is that an individual does not determine if a criminal case is brought up. It’s up to the prosecutor and if they don’t think they can win a case, they won’t proceed.
But a civil case can be brought up by anyone.
Very true good point. Hmmm
Yes, and the environment where you bring the case matters. Certain jurisdictions/circuits are more…lenient than others. A lot of that is case load versus the number of available solicitors, some of that is the general attitude of the judges there, some of that is the general attitude of the solicitors.
In any case, it is much harder to successfully pursue a criminal case to completion than a civil case (in some ways, rightfully so; in others, unjustly so). That, and in some cases, human greed can influence the decision to go for a civil suit. It definitely stinks for those who need or want criminal justice for an incident, even if at least some of the difficulty is meant to protect the accused from unfounded accusations.
Why not both?
Rice could face criminal charges and be hit with a civil lawsuit.
It won’t matter for the NFL’s investigation. He was given a discount suspension for his felonies and now this on top of that. He might miss the season this year.
They have 2 kids together. Child support isn’t as much when he is behind bars.
I think (think) most of the time, there just isnt enough evidence to get a conviction in court, just he said, she said. But in civil suits the rules are completely different and its much easier to win a case. Not saying that is what is happening here though.
You’re right. It’ll go away and then it’ll happen again. And the same cycle will Continue, as you said…until one day, you get a Darron Lee or Antonio Brown situation…this is a bad kid that’s doing everything he can to piss away his career so if I’m the Chiefs, have some gumption and cut bait with this mutant so he can no longer embarrass your great franchise.
People that have so much seek danger. Wild to me, all he has to do is be a good person and he is set for life.
What does it take to get thrown out of the league?
Kneel
To be clear, I have no problem with kap voicing his opinion nor do I think he was blacklisted for it. He just wasn’t a good enough nfl qb.
I was simply going for the joke please don’t kill me in the replies @both sides
Well, maybe he wasn’t good enough to start. But it’s ridiculous to say he wasn’t good enough to be a back up or even a 3rd stringer.
It’s pretty obvious that all teams were avoiding him. But that in itself does not mean collusion. It could be just as simple as none of the teams wanted to deal with the PR nightmare.
Yes but he was only interested in competing for starting jobs if I remember correctly, ergo, he wasn’t good enough to be an nfl qb under his own restrictions
He wasn’t good enough to be a back up.
Him and Tim Tebow should have done what Terrell Pryor
Logan Thomas
Julian Edelman
Braxton Miller did
Switch positions.
Exactly. Thank you, DroppedBallFour.
It’s actually not ridiculous, and I’m really tired of hearing this nonsense.
Good backup QBs are good passers who can read defenses, read playbooks, and execute. They can come into a game cold and play well.
Kaep was a one trick pony who was slowing down and was TERRIBLE his last year as a starter.
Just stop it already. He was never that good and got overhyped because he could run.
Don’t caveat your joke, it was good. Let those who are offended have to explain themselves for not understanding nuance and humor.
Sigh. Please read his stats and tell me he “wasn’t a good enough NFL qb.”
His record in his last 3 seasons as a starting QB: 8-8, 2-6, 1-10
He wasn’t good enough to be a NFL Starting QB. Once Harbaugh left SF, his career plummeted.
Yeah, he only ever put up numbers because of the pistol and being surrounded by WR talent and a really good, versatile RB. Not to mention that defense.
He wasn’t a good enough NFL QB.
Go back to MLB if you think stats are all that matter.
Unbelievable! I refuse to believe this upstanding gentleman who has been a model citizen would do such a thing.
You mean to tell me the same person responsible for a high speed hit & run engages in domestic violence? Preposterous!!!
Andy Reid should consider going on a Rice free diet.
Kansas City Patriots.
Dump the bum!!!!!
Chiefs can just replace him with Tyreek Hill
Contracts should either have an escape clause or a bonus clause with language that incentivizes not getting suspended.
Not all contracts mind you
Rookie contracts
He’ll probably miss another 6 games this season
They do!! Character clause in every pro contract where the team could void the contract and get signing bonuses refunded
Correct….but teams will never invoke the clause and separate from the player because they put fans in the seats and make the team money….yeh the almighty buck decides the morality of the team. Plus do you ever think Goodell, short of one of them committing murder, and the NFLPA would allow a star “bad guy” to have their contract voided…can’t think of that happening but appreciate any commentary from you guys….
He is going to be suspended for double digit games if not the entire season.
I don’t have anything to add aside from the fact that I enjoyed this comment section. Everyone was respectful and brought up good points and no one lost their cool. Some funny stuff, too. 10/10, would read again.
dolphins will have the privilege of helping fund the chiefs solution to the this problem
The usual suspect
Literally, its him.
Again?
Kareem Hunt couldn’t help Rice.
Chiefs love them some domestic abusers.