Chiefs' Rashee Rice hit with six-game suspension for car crash arrest

Rashee Rice won’t wait to serve his suspension.

The Chiefs receiver accepted a six-game suspension from the NFL to begin the season for his role in a 2024 multi-car accident in Dallas, meaning he will miss Kansas City’s Week 3 game against the Giants at MetLife Stadium, according to multiple reports.

The NFL and NFL Players Association are finalizing the agreement, per NFL Network, which will allow him to return in Week 7 against the Raiders.

4 Rashee Rice will miss the first six games of the 2025 season. AP

Rice’s suspension stems from him violating the league’s personal conduct policy in a multi-vehicle crash that resulted in multiple injuries in Texas on March 30, 2024.

The 25-year-old received a 30-day jail sentence and pled guilty to two third-degree felony charges for collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury.

Rice drove 119 mph while making “multiple aggressive maneuvers around traffic,” prosecutors said.

4 Rashee Rice during the 2024 season. Sports Illustrated via Getty Ima

The NFL reportedly wanted a 10-game suspension for Rice and a disciplinary hearing had been set for Sept. 30, which would have come after the Chiefs’ Week 4 game.

However, Rice and the Chiefs are now getting his ban out of the way.

He will miss the Week 1 contest in Brazil against the Chargers, a Week 2 home Super Bowl rematch with the Eagles, the Giants tilt on “Sunday Night Football’ in Week 3, a home contest against the Ravens in Week 4, a road trip to Jacksonville for “Monday Night Football” in Week 5 and a potential Super Bowl preview at home against the Lions in Week 6 on “Sunday Night Football.”

Rice tallied 24 catches for 288 yards and two touchdowns in four games last year before suffering a season-ending knee injury in Week 4.

4 A scene from Rice’s car crash in Texas. WFAA/ABC 8

4 Rice will serve a six-game suspension. WFAA/ABC 8

The 2023 second-round pick has 103 career catches and nine touchdowns.

In his absence, the burden will fall on recently engaged right end Travis Kelce in what could be his final season, second-year receiver Xavier Worthy and veteran Marquise “Hollywood” Brown.

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