The situation around Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice got cleared up on Wednesday, but it doesn't make it any less difficult for Fantasy Football managers.
Rice will miss each of the Chiefs' first six games -- and seven of the first 10 weeks of the Fantasy Football season -- for violating the league's Personal Conduct Policy in relation to his pleading guilty to two felony traffic charges in 2024. He was also sentenced to five years of probation and 30 days in jail, and he settled with all victims of the crash.
As a football player, Rice is great. In the three games he finished last year he averaged 21.6 PPR points on a ridiculous 9.7 targets per game. In Rice's last 17 completed games that number's been a still-great 16.4 PPR points per game on roughly 7.5 targets per game. That