When Rice is on the field, he's elite. In eight games last season after returning from a six-game NFL suspension, he averaged 15.5 fantasy points per game, or the WR3 on a per-game basis. The PFF metrics back up the production: a 99th percentile YAC per reception (8.1) and 89th percentile YPRR (2.15) among qualified receivers, with a 78th percentile route grade to round it out. The 2024 pre-injury sample tells the same story. He was the WR3 per game across three healthy weeks before tearing an LCL in Week 4. His role is unique: a 4.9 average depth of target with elite YAC, meaning the Chiefs essentially use him as an extension of the run game, getting him the ball quickly and letting him create yards in space. The volume and the role generate elite per-game scoring. The off-field picture is much more complicated, though he’s expected to avoid further suspension for violating his probation from his 2024 hit-and-run case with a positive THC test. Complicating matters, he underwent a “clean-up” procedure on his knee just before being sent to prison and has not been separating consistently in camp, per beat writer Pete Seeeney. The knee is the question mark now.