The NFL’s international games can carry an important caveat, for some players and other team employees. Certain circumstances may prevent the player from either leaving the country or entering a new one.

Mark Maske of the Washington Post raised on Thursday the question of whether Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice’s recent guilty plea to a pair of felonies arising from a street-racing crash in March 2024 would complicate his entry into Brazil for the Week 1 game against the Chargers.

On Friday, Maske reported that Rice has received clearance to travel with the team and enter Brazil for the September 5 game.

If, of course, Rice’s representatives and the NFL reach an agreement on a suspension before Week 1, Rice would miss the game. There’s currently no indication a deal is coming. Wit

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