After a knee injury kept him out of nearly all of last season’s games — and an NFL suspension kept him out of the first six of this season — the third-year wideout will make his 2025 debut against his team’s longtime rivals.
Sunday’s game will mark his first action in more than a year.And Rice couldn’t be happier for the opportunity.
“This week is really big,” he told reporters on Friday. “It’s been a while since I got to play in a regular-season game with my guys, so I’m very excited to be out there and compete.”
Rice didn’t want to dwell on the suspension that kept him off the field, preferring to speak about how he stayed in shape during the opening weeks of the season: mimicking the grind of the team’s training camp in St. Joseph.
“I went down to Florida — where it’s hot — trying to keep myself in the heat similar to St. Joe,” he revealed. “Just training every day — Monday through Friday — and [doing] some type of workout on Sunday to have my mind ready to get active on game day.”
