From Super Bowl Ring to Bankruptcy Court: Rashee Rice Files for Chapter 7 Over $3.45 Million in Debts

Less than three years ago, Rashee Rice was catching passes in a Super Bowl and collecting a championship ring. This week he walked into a federal bankruptcy court in Texas and listed that ring as collateral. The Kansas City Chiefs receiver filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Wednesday, November 4, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, claiming more than $3.45 million in debts against just $677,054 in personal assets. More than $2.1 million of the debt is tied to civil lawsuits that have been settled or are still awaiting trial, most of them stemming from the high-speed multi-car crash he caused on a Dallas highway in March 2024. The numbers in the filing tell a story of a career and a life both still paying for one night. Rice's largest single creditor is Kathryn Kuykendall, a victim of the crash who was riding in an Uber struck in the collision. She is owed $979,837 under a settlement reached in 2025, worth roughly $1 million with interest and fees. Rice has been paying her through garnishment of his Chiefs paychecks, about $206,000 across 2025 and 2026, with the balance still outstanding. Three other crash plaintiffs appear in the filing, two at $150,000 each and one, Kamlesh Desai, at $350,000, a claim Rice has marked as disputed. In total, the filing lists around 20 creditors, with a creditors' meeting scheduled for December 11. The crash itself has already cost Rice plenty. In July 2025 he pleaded guilty to two third-degree felony charges — collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury — and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years of probation. The NFL suspended him for six games. In May 2026 he was found to have violated his probation after testing positive for marijuana. The filing also reaches beyond the crash. Rice is disputing a combined $700,000 in lawsuits filed by crash victims, and a $200,000 claim from former girlfriend Dacoda Jones, who has sued him alleging abuse between 2023 and 2025. Rice has denied those allegations through his attorney, and the NFL did not punish him over them. He owes his attorney in the crash litigation, Thomas McMurray, $185,226.45 — and it is McMurray who holds the lien on the Super Bowl LVIII ring, valued at $160,000. What Rice actually holds is laid out in the filing with unsparing detail: $13,640 across three checking accounts, $421,825 in deferred compensation, a 2023 Mercedes-Benz worth $53,800, and $165,000 in jewelry. Only $39,241 of his assets is listed as nonexempt, the portion a trustee could sell to repay creditors under Chapter 7. The football context makes it stranger still. 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 $1.56 million, and he is set to become a free agent in March 2027. He has remained active with the Chiefs this season after returning from his suspension. The bankruptcy does not end his career, and it does not erase every claim against him — some debts are disputed, and the case is still pending. But it puts a hard number on what the crash has cost him: more than five times what he owns, with a championship ring held as security against the bill.