Domestic violence allegations against Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice surfaced in early January. A month and a half later, accuser Dacoda Jones – Rice’s ex-girlfriend – filed a civil lawsuit against him in a Dallas court on Monday, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports. She is searching for greater than $1MM from Rice.
In keeping with the alleged victim, Rice repeatedly assaulted her between December 2023 and July 2025. Last month, she displayed photos of injuries that Rice allegedly inflicted on her. Jones, who has two children with Rice, claims a lot of the alleged abuse occurred when she was pregnant.
“Rice has grabbed, choked, strangled, pushed, thrown, scratched, hit, and headbutted Ms. Jones, in addition to hit her with inanimate objects,” the lawsuit says (via Michael Rothstein and Nate Taylor of ESPN).
In response, Rice’s attorney Sean Lindsay stated (via Adam Schefter of ESPN): “On October ninth, 2025, well after the parties’ relationship had ended, Ms. Jones stated under penalty of perjury in a sworn Affidavit for a Non-Prosecution that ‘Mr. Rice and I had a verbal argument, but he didn’t punch me.’ We are going to allow the legal process to run its course and don’t have any further comment presently.”
In an announcement of their very own, the Chiefs said, “The club is aware [of the lawsuit] and stays in communication with the National Football League.”
The NFL, which began investigating Jones’ claims last month, said Wednesday that “the matter stays under review.” It’s unclear if the league will discipline Rice on this instance, however it has already handed him one suspension in his three-year profession. Rice served a six-game ban to open last season stemming from a hit-and-run crash in Dallas in March 2024. Rice, then facing eight felony counts, turned himself in per week and a half later.
After pleading guilty to felony collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury, Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years’ probation. He was also ordered to pay $115K to the injured victims.
In May 2024, mere weeks after Rice’s street-racing incident, he was the topic of an investigation for alleged assault on a photographer. The accuser didn’t press charges, however it continued a disturbing trend of off-field problems dating to Rice’s time at SMU.
Through the 2023 pre-draft process, NFL teams became aware of an alleged incident wherein Rice or a member of his party fired multiple shots into an empty automotive belonging to a member of SMU’s basketball team. It wasn’t enough to forestall the Chiefs from using the fifty fifth pick within the draft on Rice, who has been a very important cog of their offense when available.
Rice played a 16-game rookie season and helped the Chiefs to a Super Bowl title, but he has combined for just 12 appearances since then. An LCL tear limited Rice to 4 games in 2024, and he had nine absences last season in consequence of his suspension and a concussion. He’s on course to play the ultimate yr of his rookie contract in 2026.