Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has been sentenced to serve 30 days in jail after testing positive for marijuana.
Rice’s positive test is a direct violation of his probation for his role in a crash that left multiple people injured on a Dallas highway in 2024.
The Texas State Attorney’s Office said on Tuesday that Rice was ordered to go to jail as part of his original sentence last July when he pleaded guilty to third-degree felony charges of collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury.
As part of a plea agreement last summer, Rice was sentenced to five years of deferred probation and 30 days in jail as a condition of his probation, prosecutors said at the time.
Rice is set to be released on June 16.
The Chiefs declined to comment on the case to AP and a message sent to Rice’s attorney was not immediately returned.
Rice has been with Kansas since 2023
The timing coincides with the NFL’s offseason workout phase, which could mean the 26-year-old misses organised team activities and minicamp this spring.
On March 30, 2024, Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at 119mph (191kph) when he made “multiple aggressive manoeuvres around traffic” and struck other vehicles, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said that after the crash on North Central Expressway, Rice 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 “completely changed” and grown from the experience, which included a six-game suspension for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.
“You have to learn from things like that,” said Rice, who helped the Chiefs win the Super Bowl in 2023.
“I’ve learned and taken advantage of being able to learn from something like that.”
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