Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice put his team pay stubs into his bankruptcy file, and TMZ obtained them. They show a gross check of about $43K for one October week and a takehome of less than $15K.
Rashee Rice Pay Stubs Show Big Gross Pay And Smaller Take-Home
Rashee Rice filed copies of his Chiefs pay stubs in his ongoing bankruptcy case. TMZ obtained the court documents and published its exclusive at 2:10 PM Pacific on Monday, November 9. That equals 22:10 UTC.
The stubs cover the third full week of October. Rice grossed about $43K that week. After taxes and other deductions, TMZ says he took home less than $15K. The gap between the two numbers shows how quickly a headline salary shrinks before it reaches a bank account.
The year-to-date stub paints a bigger picture. TMZ reports $350K in performance pay, more than $351K in deferred pay, a $75K workout bonus, $70K in injured reserve pay and about $20K for training camp. His gross earnings for the year topped $1.2 million by the end of October, per TMZ.
The stub details also show how a football contract pays out. Performance pay, deferred pay, workout money, injured reserve pay and camp pay each arrive on different terms. Readers who see a headline contract number rarely see how those pieces reach a player’s account, and the stubs lay it out line by line. TMZ presents the figures as they appear in the court documents.
The Bankruptcy Filing Behind The Pay Stubs
TMZ says Rice filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy the week before. In that filing, he claimed $677K in assets and more than $3 million in liabilities. About $2 million of the debt comes from a civil lawsuit over a 2024 car crash, per TMZ. The asset list includes a Super Bowl ring that TMZ values at an estimated $160K. Rice also listed just over $13K in the bank, according to the outlet. Those figures come from his own court filing, and TMZ reports them as his claims.
The pay stubs matter because a bankruptcy court looks at income. Trustees and creditors use pay records to judge what a debtor can afford. That makes these documents part of the case file and not just a salary leak. The numbers frame the case. Rice’s take-home for the October week came to less than 35 percent of his gross check. His claimed liabilities run more than $2.3 million above his claimed assets. The Super Bowl ring alone makes up roughly a quarter of the assets he listed, and his cash on hand barely exceeds $13K. TMZ also links its March 2024 coverage of the crash scene photos, the event that produced the roughly $2 million civil claim in the file.
Creditors Push Back On Rashee Rice
The filing did not land quietly. TMZ ran a separate report on November 6 in which an attorney for a Lamborghini rental company blasted Rice. TMZ headlined that story as the attorney saying Rice looks to avoid responsibility through bankruptcy. That story falls outside our six-hour window, so we treat it as background with its real date.
Rice has other history that follows him into this case. TMZ links earlier coverage of his release from jail in June and his comments about his jail stay in August. Those reports sit outside the window as well. They show why the 2024 crash keeps surfacing in his financial story. We reviewed TMZ’s account only for the pay-stub numbers. We did not find a statement from Rice or his lawyer about the stubs. We also did not find a response from the Lamborghini company beyond what TMZ summarized on November 6.
What To Watch Next In The Rice Bankruptcy Case
Chapter 7 cases move on a schedule. Watch for the meeting of creditors, any objections to how Rice values his assets, and any move by the crash plaintiff to challenge whether the debt can be wiped out. Courts often treat judgments from certain kinds of conduct differently from ordinary debts, so the nature of the 2024 crash claim could matter.
We have not seen a filing that raises that question, so this remains a point to watch and not a report. The Chiefs and the NFL could also enter the story if the case touches his contract. TMZ’s stub details show deferred pay and bonuses in his compensation. Trustees may ask how those payments count.
For readers, the main takeaway is the scale. A receiver earning over $1.2 million gross in a season still lists more than $3 million in debts and about $13K in cash. Expect fans to argue over how that happened, and expect more filings that put numbers on it.
