{"id":146308,"date":"2025-08-14T23:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146308\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:27:15","slug":"chiefs-rashee-rice-expected-to-play-first-4-games-as-nfl-schedules-hearing-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146308\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs\u2019 Rashee Rice expected to play first 4 games as NFL schedules hearing: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesse Newell, Dianna Russini and Jeff Howe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice is scheduled to have an NFL disciplinary hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 30, allowing him to play the first four games of the season, a source confirmed to The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1956004557860819086\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">first to report the news<\/a> of Rice\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the timing of his hearing, Rice now should be able to play in the Chiefs\u2019 opening slate of games. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>K.C.\u2019s season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers in Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Week 2 at home against the Philadelphia Eagles<\/li>\n<li>A \u201cSunday Night Football\u201d game at the New York Giants<\/li>\n<li>A home game against the Baltimore Ravens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rice, 25, faces a potential suspension because of his role in a March 2024 high-speed car crash in Dallas. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6500108\/2025\/07\/17\/chiefs-rashee-rice-sentence-suspension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was sentenced last month<\/a> to five years of probation and 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to two third-degree felony charges. The NFL waits until all legal matters are settled before determining player suspensions under the league\u2019s personal conduct policy.<\/p>\n<p>Rice\u2019s disciplinary hearing will be held before Sue L. Robinson, the former U.S. district judge who serves as the jointly appointed disciplinary officer for the NFL and the NFLPA, a league source confirmed. The Rice case will be Robinson\u2019s second hearing. She handled the Deshaun Watson case three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Police reports indicated Rice was driving 119 mph in a Lamborghini Urus when he crashed on a Dallas highway, causing a chain reaction of collisions involving six other vehicles. Investigators said Rice didn\u2019t check on other victims and fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p>In a July statement from his attorney, Royce West, Rice said he\u2019d had \u201ca lot of sleepless nights thinking about the damages my actions caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue working within my means to make sure that everyone impacted will be made whole,\u201d Rice said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the plea agreement with the Dallas County District Attorney\u2019s Office, Rice had to pay restitution to all the victims for their out-of-pocket medical expenses before his plea \u2014 an amount that added up to $115,481.91.<\/p>\n<p>However, an attorney for one of the victims said last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/article310884905.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rice has yet to pay back $1 million<\/a> promised in an agreed-upon settlement stemming from a civil suit.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 second-round pick out of SMU, Rice had 24 catches for 288 yards with two touchdowns in four games last season before suffering a season-ending knee injury. He emerged late in 2023 as the Chiefs\u2019 top receiving threat, finishing with 79 catches for 938 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Rice has been working at full strength in training camp following offseason rehab for his knee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas \/ Imagn Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jesse Newell, Dianna Russini and Jeff Howe Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice is scheduled to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29287,51,3570,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-146308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fantasy-football","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115029714609795220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}