APRIL 1: Rice retained legal counsel, per CBS Sports’ Josina Anderson. The wide receiver’s new legal representative said Monday (via the Dallas Morning News’ Calvin Watkins) his client is cooperating with local authorities.
MARCH 31: A car accident Saturday night has produced a police investigation centering around Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice. Police are searching for Rice in connection with the crash, Kelli Smith and R.J. Coyle of the Dallas Morning News report.
This “major accident” involving a vehicle believed to be registered or leased to Rice occurred around 6:20pm Saturday on a Dallas highway. A driver of a Chevrolet Corvette and a driver of a Lamborghini SUV were speeding on a stretch of the North Central Expressway, per Dallas police, causing the accident.
Both drivers lost control of their vehicles in the crash, causing a high-speed collision when the Lamborghini barreled into a center median wall in a six-car accident. The two drivers fled the scene before providing any information, according to the Morning News. The two vehicles were believed to be racing, per WFAA’s Pete Freedman and Rebecca Lopez. Three men were in the Lamborghini; Rice is believed to have been driving the Corvette.
Two others involved in the accident suffered minor injuries and needed to be hospitalized. No arrest has been made, but a police call sheet confirms Rice is at the center of a search, Smith and Coyle note. Rice will have some questions to answer ahead of his second NFL offseason, though WFAA notes Dallas police have not named the 23-year-old NFLer a suspect at this point.
The Chiefs chose Rice 55th overall out of SMU in last year’s draft. A year after the team chose Skyy Moore in the second round, Rice joined a squad in need at wide receiver. The Chiefs’ receiver trouble became well documented last season, as drops plagued the defending Super Bowl champions. The team’s uneven season at the position also featured backup wideout Justyn Ross landing on the commissioner’s exempt list and eventually receiving a six-game suspension.
Rice emerged as the team’s most dependable wideout and finished his rookie year with 79 receptions for 938 yards and seven touchdowns. Rice’s touchdown and yardage totals each ranked second for a rookie in Chiefs history. As the team could not coax steady production from its more experienced wide receivers throughout last season, its 6-foot-2 rookie — obtained after efforts to trade up for a receiver in last year’s first round did not produce a deal — came through.
Rice added an eight-reception, 130-yard showing in the Chiefs’ wild-card win over the Dolphins, and he caught six passes in the team’s Super Bowl LVIII win. He will be expected to be a key part of Kansas City’s 2024 receiving corps, which will also include Marquise Brown and perhaps another notable addition. But the results of this investigation could put Rice on the radar for an NFL suspension.
Geez what a dumb ass
He pulled a Lance Briggs!
Show me a more consistent combo than Chiefs and traffic felonies.
The St. Louis Cardinals and traffic felonies? Let’s hear it for Missouri.
Raiders
The Chiefs better draft a wide receiver.
Thank god no one was killed. Man these younger guys are idiots man
As that noted philosopher Bugs Bunny might say: “What a maroon!”
Wow what a clown
If things like this don’t fit the definition of attempted murder, the definition of attempted murder should be changed.
Knowingly and willingly engaging in conduct that can result in the easily foreseeable deaths of others.
That’s what this is.
DUI, too, while we are here.
Too inexperienced a driver for that kind of vehicle. Need to work your way up. The brain needs to establish reactions that don’t require conscious thought.
Aside from the car being too powerful, poor choice of venue. Too many other cars, too much risk to other people. Nobody cares if you crash on a deserted road and only you are hurt, just saying.
Work your way up so you can responsibly speed on a busy (or not busy) road?? Perfect.
Well there is actually a Street Racing Channel, Discovery Channel put 15 seasons into Street Outlaws, there are 12 Fast & Furious films, there are under ground street racing circuits in almost every city in the US, and the sport is a cult in Asia……. I actually work with individuals that attend and, at times, a touch more.
Now take a young man who has grown up with this media stimulation and is around the age of say, 23. Now give him $2.5 million. What do you think is going to happen?
Crashing and bailing on your corvette and Lamborghini? What exactly do you think is going to happen? What is your “story” why you ran from the scene when you eventually get brought in?
Rashee: “Some dude at the crash site told me Taylor Swift was hosting a concert nearby…so naturally I couldn’t stick around and miss that”.
I mean, it’s not like cars are registered so that if they’re abandoned the authorities can figure out who… wait…
All joking aside, they’ll likely still have to I.D. the driver. That’s why hit and runs are so easy to get away with in most states (I’m unaware of how it works there)-the person just claims that he/she wasn’t driving and, without definitive proof, that’s that.
Except in this case, the owner of the car can’t be found to claim he wasn’t driving. Why is that?
Lucky for him he put up decent enough numbers last year, he went from “the chiefs do not tolerate this behavior so we released Rice” to “we are actively gathering information and have no comment at this time”
Chiefs are so hypocritical … if he was the #4 receiver he’d be gone.
I won’t be surprised if when they finally nab him he will have:
Expired, suspended or no driver’s license
No insurance
Expired vehicle license and registration
Outstanding warrants and, or other violations
Unregistered firearm
Weed
This is yet another example of young people with money in a high-performance car that is too powerful for them to drive
.(See Henry Ruggs formerly of the Raiders)
This young generation has no respect for laws or authority.
lol yes, bad behavior is definitely new to this generation.
Exactly. I remember a time when we had great NFL role models like Jim Brown, Darryl Henley, and Rae Carruth. Those previous generations sure were filled with amazing men!
Ernie Holmes.
The OG J6 “hostage”.
I hate to see anyone get hurt … or in an accident … but if it has to happen … might as well be a Chiefs player! This could have been a lot worse. Can’t think of a better team for it to happen to!
You’re a moron.
Thanks ! So are you !
Not even funny.
It’s hilarious!
letmeclearmythroat74 is actually Brownsbacker9
That guy……
How dare you accuse me of being a Browns fan! Not even close. Same division though!
Deerhunter is brownsbacker. I found out when I dared to mention the Watson contract being a disaster. The arguments and glitchy personality are the same. I have him muted now. I highly recommend it.
COMMENTS OPEN…………….for now
Not to excuse street racing!
Comments seem to point that none of those responding ever ‘street raced’ a vehicle against another, which I find incredible.
Many of these high speed accidents happen because of ‘driving beyond capability’. Young guys buying / leasing / renting vehicles with more power than they’ve experienced added to a youthful ‘invincibility’ with a lack of ‘consequence foresight’ thus a recipe for public danger. This was an issue with ‘sport bikes’ as dealers sell to whomever qualifies for payments and states issue licenses based on ‘extremely low speed’ testing, but with cars – any automobile operators license will suffice.
Could have summed up you’re whole post in 1 word …. Idiots
Hadn’t seen the video until today – haven’t really watched him on the field but would hope he’ll come out of this a better person though he sucks at driving.
It sounds like this could’ve been SO much worse…
Rice and all involved are incredibly lucky.
Hollywood Brown just moved up some fantasy draft rankings…
I am surprised Rice hasn’t been cut already – as he’s nothing special and thus not worth the bad PR.
maybe andy reid can adopt him to take the place of one of his scumbag sons
Not sure what’s worse. The fact he would cause a major accident and flea the seen of the crime or that he thought his Corvette could hang w a Lamborghini.
In a separate matter, former Lions DB Cameron Sutton has turned himself in on a domestic violence warrant issued in Florida last month.
To the ineligible list you go! Make an example these idiots need to be held accountable. No amount of money should get you out. Remember the Dallas Cowboys that killed 2 people doing this exact same thing and got a slap on the wrist?
Lucky no one was killed
SMH
The Dash cam footage is crazy, he also was not cooperating he lied saying he wasn’t there then wasn’t driving all which was proved a lie at least as far as I can tell from comments and the video.
Given his new found lawyer representation…this will become focused as an overzealous police department not treating street racers the same. Then they will figure out which one of his goon friends will be taking the fall and state they were driving….and how to launder the money to his family.
Link to video of crash:
link to youtu.be
To just casually get out of the car and walk away says what a piece of human trash you are.