{"id":291265,"date":"2025-08-15T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/291265\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:09:10","slug":"chiefs-wr-rashee-rice-could-still-be-suspended-prior-to-start-of-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/291265\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs WR Rashee Rice could still be suspended prior to start of regular season\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL initially proposed a suspension of Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/rashee-rice\/\" title=\"Rashee Rice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rashee Rice<\/a> for double-digit games, which is the basis of the league and NFL Players Association being unable to agree on the length of the penalty and setting a Sept. 30 <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/chiefs-wr-rashee-rice-disciplinary-hearing-set-for-sept-30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disciplinary hearing<\/a>, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There is still the possibility of an agreement on suspension length being reached prior to the start of Kansas City&#8217;s season on <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/chiefs-at-chargers-2025-reg-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 5<\/a>, which would result in Rice missing games to begin the year rather than at a later point, Pelissero added.<\/p>\n<p>Per Pelissero, the lack of precedence for suspending a player for more than half of the season in a situation such as this is the reason behind the NFLPA and Rice&#8217;s representation pushing back.<\/p>\n<p>Rice, 25, is facing discipline under the league&#8217;s personal conduct policy after he was <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/chiefs-wr-rashee-rice-sentenced-to-30-days-in-jail-over-dallas-high-speed-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to 30 days in jail<\/a> in July following authorities saying he and another driver traveling at high speeds caused a chain-reaction crash that involved multiple vehicles and caused multiple injuries March 30, 2024, on a Dallas highway.<\/p>\n<p>Should the hearing take place as scheduled, it will be overseen by disciplinary officer Judge Sue L. Robinson, who <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/browns-qb-deshaun-watson-suspended-11-games-fined-5-million-following-settlement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously ruled<\/a> on Browns quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/deshaun-watson\/\" title=\"Deshaun Watson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deshaun Watson<\/a>&#8216;s suspension in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 NFL Draft second-round pick of the Chiefs, Rice is heading into his third season. He played in four games last year before he suffered a season-ending <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/chiefs-wr-rashee-rice-needs-lcl-repaired-expected-to-miss-rest-of-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL initially proposed a suspension of Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice for double-digit games, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[1227,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,88,6,609,4000,7708],"class_list":{"0":"post-291265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-no-minute","18":"tag-rashee-rice","19":"tag-sensitive-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}