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Last season, Rashee Rice served a six-game suspension after landing in legal trouble over a crash that occurred while he was street racing in Dallas. He struck a plea deal that led to him being placed on probation, and he’ll be heading back to jail for a month after testing positive for marijuana.
Every NFL team has found itself dealing with headaches stemming from players who’ve broken the law, and while I can’t find any hard data to support this claim, it feels like wide receivers manage to end up in handcuffs at a disproportionate rate.
In 2024, Kansas City Chiefs wideout Rashee Rice joined the lengthy list of guys at that position who have ended up at the center of a fairly serious crime after he was involved in a car crash in Dallas that sent two people to the hospital.
Police determined he was racing the Lamborghini he was driving before he fled the scene after it collided with other vehicles, and he avoided a trial by agreeing to a deal that was accompanied by a 30-day jail sentence and a five-year probationary period.
It seemed like he had largely managed to put the incident behind him after he served the six-game suspension the NFL handed out last season, but that did not end up being the case after the most recent development in the case.
Rashee Rice will miss OTAs and mini-camp after violating the terms of his probation by testing positive for marijuana
Rice had managed to defer the 30-day sentence he was hit with to an undetermined point in the future, and the terms of his probation required him to undergo regular testing for the illegal substances he was ordered to abstain from.
That includes the marijuana that was responsible for the THC that was recently found in his system, as Matt Foster of KSBH shared court documents filed on Tuesday that showed he was ordered to immediately report to jail for a month-long sentence that will end on June 16th.
#Breaking: Chiefs WR Rashee Rice violated his probation after testing positive for marijuana.
Rice has been ordered to serve 30 days in jail, meaning he will miss #Chiefs OTAs & Mandatory Mini-Camp. @KSHB41 is working to learn more. pic.twitter.com/OCJ9wfC9ac
— Matt Foster (@MattFosterTV) May 19, 2026
That means Rice will not be eligible to participate in the OTAs that the Chiefs will hold starting next week on top of the mandatory minicamp that is slated to begin on June 9th. He is also entering the final year of his four-year entry contract, and he certainly didn’t do himself any favors when it comes to leverage with this misstep.