{"id":221092,"date":"2025-10-17T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221092\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:01:08","slug":"backing-the-chiefs-rashee-rice-among-top-nfl-player-prop-experts-best-bets-for-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221092\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing the Chiefs’ Rashee Rice among top NFL player prop expert’s best bets for Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t think Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> receiver Rashee Rice<\/a> has been counting the days since his return to the football field, you’d be wrong.<\/p>\n

On Friday, when meeting with the media, the receiver who was recently reinstated from suspension was asked about how long he has been looking forward to rejoining his teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Said Rice, “I think it’s been like 380-something days I haven’t played a regular season game.”<\/p>\n

Officially, the time span between Rice’s last NFL<\/a> game, on Sept. 29, 2024, and Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> will be 385 days, but Rice made his point: his return to the field has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n

His absence has been well documented. In March 2024, Rice was racing another driver on a highway in Dallas at speeds reaching nearly 120 mph when his Lamborghini struck other vehicles, causing a multi-vehicle crash. Rice then fled on foot without checking on others, according to prosecutors. Rice, who did not play the final 13 games of the 2024 season after tearing a ligament in his right knee, pleaded guilty to two third-degree felony charges, which led to the six-game suspension to start this season brought down by the league.<\/p>\n

With his knee healed and his suspension over, Rice is ready for his return and even posted a video on social media on Wednesday hyping his return.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a long time coming, and the time is finally here,” he said Friday.<\/p>\n

And with the receiver set to rejoin the Chiefs on Sunday, SportsLine player prop expert Alex Selesnick likes Rice’s chances to contribute immediately. So Selesnick, who is 1,008-799 and up $3,213 on all prop picks since joining CBS Sports in 2021, has made Rice Over 56.5 total receiving yards (-139) against the Raiders\u00a0one of his five best player prop bets for the NFL’s Week 7<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why does Selesnick like Rice on Sunday?<\/p>\n

“First and foremost, Patrick Mahomes<\/a> is back playing at an elite level, coupled with the Chiefs offense being extremely pass-heavy this season,” he says.<\/p>\n

Selesnick also notes that Las Vegas plays zone coverage 80% of the time this year (fifth-highest rate in the NFL) and Cover 3 46% of the time (second-highest rate in the league). That bodes well for Rice who excels against both zone (28% targets per route run and 3.08 yards per route run) and Cover 3 (29% TPRR and 3.32 YPRR).<\/p>\n

Kansas City offensive coordinator Matt Nagy is excited about finally having the opportunity to get Rice, Xavier Worthy<\/a> and Hollywood Brown all on the field at the same time.<\/p>\n

Said Nagy, “I get goosebumps just thinking about when [Rice] goes out there and what he does to this offense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you don’t think Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice has been counting the days since his return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,615,134578,134577,1240,1250,593,32042,32043,59487,126453,122199,134575,134576,6584,11777,85,21178],"class_list":["post-221092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-betting","tag-darren-waller-player-props","tag-darren-waller-props","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-nfl-week-6","tag-nfl-week-6-odds","tag-nfl-week-6-player-props","tag-nfl-week-6-props","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-rashee-rice","tag-sports","tag-xavier-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}