Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice is expected to have a disciplinary hearing with the NFL on Sept. 30 regarding potential punishment stemming from a 2024 crash that resulted in two third-degree felony charges, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported on Thursday.
Rice's hearing comes after the league and the NFL Players Association could not come to an agreement on a length of a potential suspension, Rapoport and Pelissero added. Disciplinary officer Judge Sue L. Robinson, who previously ruled on Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson's discipline in 2022, will oversee Rice's hearing.
Rice faces potential discipline under the league's personal conduct policy after he was sentenced to 30 days in jail in July after authorities said he and another driver traveling at high speeds in sports cars caused a chain-reaction crash involving multiple vehicles and causing injuries March 30, 2024, on a Dallas highway.
Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at 119 mph (191 kph) when he made "multiple aggressive maneuvers around traffic" and struck other vehicles, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that after the crash, Rice failed to check on the welfare of those in the other vehicles and fled on foot.
Rice appeared in four games last season before suffering a year-ending knee injury in September and has participated in Kansas City's training camp this month.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.