For the first time, doubt has started to creep into my mind that Rice is playing for this team next season.

Hope I'm wrong, but luring a photographer (if true) is extremely concerning. That's some Antonio Brown level crazy.

This might be the wildest trajectory I can remember for a 1st/2nd rd Chiefs draft pick. right after the SB, Rice was being hailed as the future of the Chiefs offense, the guy that was going to carry the team forward for the next ten years while amassing a HOF career. A few months later, he probably won't get extended.



just crazy.



Just out of curiosity, did we have any idea that Rice was this much of a problem child before drafting him? Were there actual signs while he was in college that he had these . . . tendencies? Or was this all just completely out of left field?

RASHEE RICE DID NOTHING WRONG*!

*since his car crash

Hunts dumbest move was being on the verge of indefinite suspension and going to a lake party spot and getting drunk with the same group of friends only to get into a fight.

Yes that's fair to wait to see his minimal involvement in this second incident. There's plenty we know from the original incident that at bare minimum he was a dipshit even if we don't know the final verdict

I don't think fans got much wind of it, but a few different beat writers have said things like this, which implies that the concerns were definitely there if not particularly loud.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looks like this is from Bob McGinn’s draft series. Sure this was decried as being wrong to report about a draft prospect at the time. It’s definitely a fine line to anonymously quote people making critical comments like this. But the objective is to inform, even if that means… <a href="https://t.co/rK8byzd7wj">https://t.co/rK8byzd7wj</a></p>&mdash; Dan Duggan (@DDuggan21) <a href="https://twitter.com/DDuggan21/status/1788222637468000459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

He goes on to say in the thread:

As far as drafting Rashee, if he never plays another down for the Chiefs it was a great pick. Can you imagine if we hadn't had him last year?

Well hell. I thought Veach was doing a pretty good job of vetting prospect's characters; better than Dorsey anyway. I guess maybe not?

Goddamn, any specifics at all would be nice. Not that Rice's naysayers are necessarily wrong, but teams don't remove players from their draft boards because of a hunch. There must be specific things he said or did to convince teams to disregard him...assuming the stories about his character concerns aren't fabricated.

This just keeps spiraling, please make it stop

Pretty amazing how character concerns come out about everybody else, even guys that don't really have any, yet there was this big secret with Rashee.

Has he been arrested? No document incidents to point to?

Then nobody can say they saw this coming.

Zay Jones and agent with the biggest shit eating grins of anybody right now.

“Before we consider that particular $ number, do you happen to know what Rashee is getting into later tonight?”

No ragrets and its possible being a SB champ might negatively impact someone with existing red flags in their first offseason

Eh, maybe those issues are the reason we were able to get him at 55. Like wazu said, it's hard to imagine we could have won the SB without him last year, so it's still not a bust even if he never plays for us again (and to be clear, I hope this all amounts to nothing and he's here for years).

It's because there's nothing. If there was even a single incident to point to, we would've heard about it.

I'm sure somebody probably peeped something like "he hangs with the wrong crowd". But how many guys like DeSean Jackson had similar things said about them yet they had a long career with little to no issues.

Yea, that's the narrative a lot of people are going with.

Doesn't add up either. Even those of us that loved Rice as a prospect didn't think he was some 1st round talent or anything crazy. He went exactly where he should've went based on the tape, testing, etc.

Which is just further proof that whatever character concerns there were, they were minor at the time.