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It does help that he's someone who's been in the offense for a couple of years and knows the system.

But the biggest thing that you talk about Rice and the reason why you can't put him in those conversations as a top 15, top 21 receiver is

the availability right like you we've not gotten to see to really find a great uh rishi rice that you got to go and cherry pick these games and then cherry pick these games and oh if you go over the last 16 games he's averaging you know 77 yards a game well that's great

but everything else in there matters too.

So that's definitely part of it.

That's the full story with him.

And look, will I be shocked if Rasheed Rice is able to start week one and have a really good season and string together a much-needed strong season because he does stay on the field?

No, I won't be surprised because he certainly needs it.

And there is talent there, and the Chiefs seem very willing to use his skill set.

With all that being said...

That feels like a true best outcome for him, and we've not seen much of those from Rasheed Rice lately.

Yeah, I feel like they weathered the storm at this point, right?

Like we've kind of seen this, like thinking back to Kareem Hunt, they wasted no time cutting him, even though that was more about him not telling the truth than it was him, the incident that he had.

Yeah, I think that they're going to weather the storm here.

And I understand people wanting to cut him.

At this point, I think it's probably just, it's a sunk cost fallacy of like, we've already, he's here.

we're not going to get anything of value from him from moving on from him the only thing you are getting is just the certainty of like we know he can't hurt us anymore right like we can't rachie rice won't get suspended if he's not on the roster for us um well i guess he could get suspended but he won't be suspended from our roster but yeah i i think that they're just going to write it out this year and then let him walk and i mean you want to talk about a complicated contract situation for him even if he does go out and have a great season

I don't know that the Chiefs could talk themselves into getting a comp pick for him because I assume that contract is going to be loaded with exclusive guarantees and those type of things that relate to him being on the field.

So I think they're probably just going to weather the storm.

I get it because this team looks even worse without him on it for a full 17 games, and I think at this point they'd probably rather have Rice for 10 than Rice for 9.