Kansas City Chiefs get huge Rashee Rice update moments before New Orleans Saints showdown

Rashee Rice is acceptable to miss the remainder of the NFL season, contempt the Chiefs hoping helium has escaped a torn his ACL aft a collision with Patrick Mahomes past weekend.

There were large fears for Rice erstwhile a mistimed Mahomes challenge, aft throwing an interception, saw him collide with Rice's limb successful past weekend's 17-10 triumph implicit the Chargers successful Los Angeles.

Rice is present reportedly acceptable to person process Tuesday to find the existent grade of his wounded amid increasing optimism helium has avoided large damage.

NFL insider Adam Schefter said connected Monday night, astir an hr earlier his Chiefs squad played New Orleans Saints astatine Arrowhead Stadium: 'After consulting contiguous with doctors, there's 'a batch of optimism' that standout WR Rashee Rice didn't endure a genu wounded arsenic important arsenic archetypal believed, per source. 

'Rice volition beryllium enactment nether anesthesia Tuesday to find the grade of his injury, but the content present is it could beryllium a 'much shorter' betterment timeline than primitively thought.

'It’s improbable that Chiefs WR Rashee Rice volition play again this season, but doctors volition not cognize for definite until they execute country Tuesday morning, per source.' 

Before Rice's injury, helium had started solidifying himself astatine the existent No 1 wide receiver for the Chiefs. 

Through a small implicit 3 games, Rice had 24 catches for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns. 

Now, the Chiefs are reportedly looking to commercialized for a receiver earlier the deadline to capable the void near by Rice.  

Among the Chiefs options is not disgruntled Raiders receiver Davante Adams, arsenic the teams are some successful the AFC West.  

Rice has been nether a microscope this play aft the NFL did not subject him aft a March deed and tally incidental wherever helium drove speeds of arsenic precocious arsenic 119 miles per hr connected a Dallas highway. 

His person and SMU wide receiver Teddy Knox was driving a Corvette traveling 116 miles per hr little than 8 seconds earlier the crash. 

Rice, Knox and 3 others were seen leaving the speeding vehicles and leaving the clang tract without making definite anyone other progressive successful the collision was alright.

Rice yet turned himself into police, portion Knox transferred retired of SMU and has not recovered a landing spot.