Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice is once again in legal trouble. Rice violated his probation after testing positive for THC, Matt Foster of KSHB 41 News reports. He has been ordered to serve 30 days in jail.
Rice is on probation for five years as a result of a 2024 hit-and-run crash that led to eight felony charges. 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 ordered to pay $115K to the injured victims.
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Rice’s jail sentence is the same one he was originally ordered to serve, per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Had he not violated probation, Rice would have been able to choose when to serve his time over the next five years, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports relays. He will now have to go through with it immediately, which will prevent him from participating in the Chiefs’ upcoming OTAs and mandatory minicamp.
The NFL suspended Rice for the first six games of last season as a result of his street-racing crash. However, it is unlikely this violation will lead to another ban, according to Jones, who notes the league does not suspend players for positive marijuana tests. It is nonetheless another unwelcome off-field development for Rice, who was accused of domestic violence in a civil lawsuit filed in February. Dacoda Jones, Rice’s ex-girlfriend, claimed he repeatedly assaulted her from December 2023 to July 2025. He was not charged with a crime, and the league chose not to suspend him after reviewing the matter.
On the field, Rice is entering the pivotal final season of the four-year rookie contract he signed in 2023. During the 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. The Chiefs nonetheless selected Rice in the second round (No. 55 overall), a move that has paid dividends when he has taken the field. Rice was a standout during a 16-game rookie year in which he caught 79 passes for 938 yards and seven touchdowns. He added another 26 receptions in a four-game playoff run, including six in a Super Bowl LVIII win over the 49ers.
Thanks to a Week 4 LCL tear in 2024, last year’s suspension and a concussion, Rice played a mere 12 games over the previous two seasons. Despite suiting up just eight times in 2025, the 26-year-old piled up 53 catches, 571 yards and five scores. Barring punishment from the league, the Chiefs will count on Rice to continue serving as a key weapon when the upcoming season starts. Rice will be the top receiver in a corps that also includes Xavier Worthy, Tyquan Thornton, Jalen Royals and fifth-round rookie Cyrus Allen.
He had one job to do.
And that job was pretty simple. Don’t do anything.
2004 arrest?
He pulled a hit and run with his tricycle.
While smuggling pixy stix
Chief WRs in 2004: Eddie Kennison, Johnnie Morton and special teams ace Dante Hall.
He was a wild man on his trike at 4.
Must’ve hit a doll in the living room and sped away.
Good. Should be in jail longer. Not for the pot, idgaf about that. But as with almost all athletes, he got a slap on the wrist for the other thing
Just like Norm MacDonald said OJ should’ve went to prison for the other thing. Not stealing his own f’ing shirts.
Privilege
I believe it’s a Maya Angelou quote “when some one shows you who they are believe them” seems pretty apt here.
But everyone is still up in arms over Vrabel’s infidelity
Well that’s because its funny.
Would make for a great country song.
Professional athletes have gotten in more trouble for simply smoking weed than for abusing their girlfriends. Make that make sense
Because state governments (and the feds, too) condone woman-bashing and drug-war tactics in the name of “Family Values”.
“condone woman-bashing”? Check out disparities in men vs women sentencing for DV (or sentencing for all crimes). Or laws and police actions that heavily favor women and even deprive men of due process in such disputes before opening your mouth.
THC can objectively be detected by a blood test, domestic abuse cannot.
Because he’s not in prison and on probation. The rules are stay clean, and he couldn’t.
What a moron lol
On today’s episode of dumbass NFL players .. this guy seems to make the cut every season
30 days!! 30 whole days!! How do you expect him to survive 30 freaking days in that h**lhole minimum security prison he’s going to? How will he be able to hone his skills at pickleball, leather wallet making, and tennis? Having to eat that pig slop like shrimp, steak and french fries? What kind of inhuman judge sentences a man to serve that kind of time??? Oh the humanity of it all !!!!
Wut
Steak and shrimp? What jail did you go to?
Can’t read? It’s a shame. Minimum security? It’s like summer camp only you can’t leave. Guess you guys never heard of satire.
No, I get it. The use just happens to be incorrect.
That’s what she said.
So when does the chiefs sign Tyrek Hill now
Snag Aiyuk and get AB out of retirement too. That would be an entertaining team.
Rashee will soon be dumb enough to succeed Goodell as league commissioner 🙂
Two words, Kayshon Boutte
The league hasn’t suspended him for the domestic case……..yet. While not a criminal matter right now, if he is found guilty in the civil case, the league will have to revisit it for punishment eventually.
I think the NFL encourages this. They only care about attention which equals $
What should the NFL do? Why, make Rice more games in Europe every season, of course. That’s their solution to everything.
Hahah or 18 game schedule
It’s a positive that the Court is holding him to task for his failure to follow the probation requirements yet doubt it’ll bring any change to his behavior. Not confident he’ll serve the entirety of the 30 days.
Teams might help invoke corrective behaviors – however that’s defined in today’s America – by clauses in contracts that takes money from immature or defiant players, something the nflpa ought endorse for the betterment of sports.
them
Guy kills someone and u get a slap on the wrist
Time to cut the thug.