Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has been ordered to serve 30 days in jail after violating his probation with a positive test for marijuana. Rice was booked on Tuesday afternoon in Dallas County, Texas, and is due to be released on 16 June, meaning he will miss organised team activities and a mandatory minicamp.
The news was first reported by Kansas City's KSHB 41 News, which obtained court documents showing that Rice tested positive for THC. The Chiefs have yet to comment on the matter.
Rice was on probation for his role in a street-racing crash that left multiple people injured on a Dallas highway in March 2024. He pleaded guilty in July last year to two third-degree felonies and was sentenced to five years of probation and deferred adjudication on a 30-day jail sentence. Prosecutors said Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at 119 mph when he made multiple aggressive manoeuvres around traffic and struck other vehicles. After the crash, he failed to check on the welfare of those in the other vehicles and fled on foot.
At training camp prior to last season, Rice said he had changed and grown from the experience, which also included a six-game suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy. He said: "You have to learn from things like that. I've learned and taken advantage of being able to learn from something like that."
Rice has played parts of three seasons with the Chiefs, missing time because of the 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 in 2023, Rice has 156 receptions for 1,797 yards and 14 scores in 28 career games.
