Yes, Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice will be available to start the 2025 season.

Via Adam Schefter of ESPN.com/The NFL*, Rice’s disciplinary hearing is expected to be held on September 30 . This means he’ll be eligible to play until a ruling is issued — and his appeal rights have been exhausted.

The report doesn’t mention whether the hearing will unfold before retired judge Sue L. Robinson or Commissioner Roger Goodell. There has been talk that proceedings before Judge Robinson may not be required, since no facts are in dispute.

Either way, the fact that a hearing has been scheduled means that the league and Rice (and the NFL Players Association) have not reached an agreement on a suspension following Rice’s guilty plea to multiple felonies as a result of a street-racing incident in

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