Rashee Rice remains behind bars until June 16, forcing him to miss all of Kansas City’s OTAs and mandatory minicamp; Yankee Scores reports…
Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice will the next 30 days in jail after testing positive for marijuana in violation of the terms of his probation for his role in a crash that left multiple people injured on a Dallas highway two years ago.
The Texas State Attorney’s Office said Tuesday that Rice was ordered to go to jail immediately as part of his original 30-day sentence for the third-degree felony of racing and causing bodily injury.
“Mr. Rice was taken into custody today in the 194th Judicial District Court for testing positive for THC and ordered to serve the 30 days that he had previously been ordered to serve at a later time — starting today,” the Dallas County DA’s office said in a statement.
The Root of the Sentence
Rice was charged with deferred adjudication for his guilty plea in July, and the case will be dismissed upon the completion of his probation.
According to the police reports, Rice was put behind bars at 1:25 p.m. ET in the Dallas County Jail. His release date is expected to be June 16. That means that he will miss the voluntary practices of the Chiefs that are expected to begin next week as well as the mandatory minicamp which will end on June 11.
The Chiefs refused to provide any comments concerning the situation. Meanwhile, the lawyer of Travis Rice, Thomas M. McMurray, cannot be reached.
On March 2024, Rice was speeding at 119 mph in the Lamborghini Urus SUV on the North Central Expressway of Dallas. The result was a multicar accident which resulted in injuries to several people. Theodore Knox, a teammate of Rice at SMU, was also speeding in the black Corvette. Together with their three friends, they did not give any help to the injured persons and ran away before the police arrived. All these events were caught on camera.
Less than two weeks later, Travis Rice accepted full responsibility and apologized in a written statement prior to being arrested at Glenn Heights Police Department after a warrant was issued.
At the district court, he admitted guilt of two third-degree felony charges – collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury and got deferred adjudication with five years of probation.
As a result of this incident, Rice received a six-game suspension from the NFL last season because of violation of the league’s personal conduct policy.
In August 2025, Knox pleaded guilty to these charges and got 30 days of jail with five years of probation.
A Mountain of Civil and Personal Chaos
Not long ago, a Texas court pronounced default judgment against Knox for about $2.88 million in favor of Kathryn Kuykendall, one of the crash’s victims. Judge Kim Bailey Phipps found Knox grossly negligent after he and Rice lost control of their cars and crashed. Last year, Phipps ordered Rice to pay Kuykendall around $1.1 million.
A civil case against Travis Rice from the crash victims’ side was supposed to start on June 9; however, all sides agreed to postpone the trial for six months in May. The other victim, Kayla Quinn, also filed a civil lawsuit against Rice, and the trial is set for January 12, 2027.
There is another lawsuit filed against Rice by Dacoda Jones on February 16. According to her statement, she was repeatedly abused by Rice during an 18-month period from 2023 to 2025, and he even choked her in December 2023. In April 3, the NFL ended their investigation of abuse accusations, concluding that there were no sufficient evidences to prove the violation of the personal conduct policy. Next hearing on this case is scheduled to take place next month.
Travis Rice played in three seasons with the Chiefs, but due to a six-game suspension and injury of the knee, he missed some games. Nevertheless, he contributed to Kansas City winning the Super Bowl in the 2023 season.
