Chiefs’ Rashee Rice sent to jail after violating probation for highway racing crash | Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail after violating his probation with a positive test for marijuana.
Rice was booked Tuesday afternoon in Dallas County, Texas, and is expected to be released June 16. The schedule means he will miss organized team activities and a mandatory minicamp.
KSHB 41 News in Kansas City broke the story and obtained a copy of court documents, which show Rice tested positive for THC. The Chiefs have not yet commented.
Rice was on probation for his role in a street racing crash that injured several people on a Dallas highway in March 2024. He pleaded guilty last July to two third-degree felonies and was sentenced to five years of probation and deferred judgment on a 30-day jail sentence. Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at 120 mph when he made “several aggressive maneuvers around traffic” and struck other vehicles, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that after the crash, Rice failed to check on the welfare of people in the other vehicles and fled on foot.
At training camp before last season, Rice said he had “completely changed” and grown through the experience, which included a six-game suspension for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.
“You have to learn from things like that,” Rice said. “I learned and benefited from being able to learn from something like that.”
Rice played parts of three seasons, missing time due to suspension and a knee injury. He helped Kansas City win the Super Bowl in the 2023 season.
The 26-year-old caught 53 passes for 571 yards and five touchdowns in eight games last season. A second-round pick of the Chiefs in 2023, Rice has 156 receptions for 1,797 yards and 14 scores in 28 career games.
