At OTAs this week Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes was asked to evaluate receiver Rashee Rice.
Said Mahomes, "He looks like Rashee ... explosive and fast."
He was talking about Rice on the football field. But the same can be said about him behind the wheel of a car on a freeway.
While he continues to return from a torn LCL suffered in Week 4 season, Rice has been slapped with another lawsuit stemming from his involvement in multi-vehicle crash in Dallas in March 2024.
Rice and Teddy Knox - teammates at SMU - already faced another lawsuit filed by two people who allege they suffered multiple injuries, including brain trauma and internal bleeding. The new lawsuit was filed in Dallas County earlier this month by a woman who alleges that she and her son were heading home when their vehicle was hit in the high-speed crash.
"Rice and Knox maneuvered to illegally pass traffic on the left side of the road in an emergency lane and hit a median," the lawsuit states. "The high speeds of their vehicles caused a rotation that demolished cars in their path and set off a high-speed chain reaction of other cars being struck and spun into each other, The resulting chain reaction of violent collisions impacted the vehicle in which the Plaintiff was traveling with her minor son."
The woman alleges in the lawsuit that people involved in the crash and other bystanders tried to speak to Rice and Knox after the crash, but they left the scene of the crash on foot.
Says the filing, "Defendants leaving the scene of the collision was a conscious decision to ignore the welfare of those harmed by their grossly negligent conduct in favor of hiding their level of intoxication from activities earlier in the afternoon."
The woman is claiming injuries, physical trauma and emotional/mental damage, and is seeking between $250,000-$1 million.
Rice was allegedly driving a Lamborghini leased through a Fort Worth-based company and Knox was allegedly driving a Corvette leased in Rice's name that were driving on U.S. 75 at speeds in excess of 110 mph when they lost control, causing a chain-reaction crash that involved a total of six vehicles.
Rice admitted to driving the Lamborghini and turned himself in to police two weeks later. He faces eight charges in connection with the crash – six counts of collision involving bodily injury, one count of collision involving serious bodily injury, and one count of aggravated assault. Knox faced the same charges and was suspended from the SMU football team following the crash.
Rice got off to a hot start last season before his injury, with 24 catches and two touchdowns in four games. The Chiefs' offense sputtered without him at times.