Kansas City, Missouri: Chiefs Receiver Rashee Rice Files for Bankruptcy Claiming $3.45 Million in Debts

Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice has filed for bankruptcy, claiming more than $3.45 million in debts against $677,054 in personal assets, in a filing that ties most of what he owes to civil cases from his 2024 high speed crash in Dallas and to assault allegations by a former girlfriend.

Rice filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Wednesday in federal court in Texas, according to federal court records reported by ESPN and the Associated Press. The filing lists $421,825 of his assets as deferred compensation. Of the debts, more than $3.27 million is unsecured debt from civil litigation, business debt and consumer debt, USA Today reported.

The largest single creditor is owed $979,837 as part of a settlement for Rice's role in the 2024 crash, which left multiple people injured and led to a six game suspension by the NFL. Twenty creditors are listed in all. Rice is disputing other potential debts, including a combined $700,000 in lawsuits filed by crash victims and $200,000 tied to the former girlfriend who alleged he assaulted her multiple times from 2023 to 2025. The league did not punish Rice over the assault allegations, the AP reported.

The filing also lists a 2023 Mercedes-Benz valued at $53,800 and a Super Bowl 58 ring valued at $160,000 among his assets.

The crash behind the cases

On March 30, 2024, Rice was driving 119 mph in a Lamborghini Urus on a Dallas highway when he caused a six car crash, according to an arrest warrant cited by USA Today. In July 2025, he pleaded guilty to third degree felony charges of collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years of probation over the crash.

Rice was found to have violated his probation in May 2026 after testing positive for marijuana, and he served another 30 days in jail this year.

Attorney Marc Lenahan told WFAA in July 2025 that his client, Kathryn Kuykendall, had not been paid after Rice agreed to a $1 million settlement over the crash, in which an Uber she was riding in was struck by Rice's car. Kuykendall holds the largest outstanding claim in the bankruptcy filing, at more than $979,000, USA Today reported.

Final year of his rookie deal

Rice, 26, is in the final year of a four year rookie contract worth $6.5 million in total, with a 2026 base salary of about $1.6 million. He has 20 catches for 243 yards and two touchdowns this season. As a rookie in 2023, he had 938 receiving yards and seven touchdowns in a season that ended with the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl.

Rice's bankruptcy attorney, David Shuster, and the Chiefs had no comment, ESPN reported. A Chapter 7 case is a liquidation bankruptcy, in which a filer's non exempt assets can be sold to pay creditors before qualifying debts are discharged, and the crash settlements and disputed suits will be sorted out in that court.