{"id":10529,"date":"2025-01-14T22:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=10529"},"modified":"2025-01-14T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:58:37","slug":"breaking-news-chiefs-wr-rashee-rice-nearing-surprise-return-for-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=10529","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : \ud83c\udfc8 Could Chiefs WR Rashee Rice Make a Shocking Playoff Comeback? \ud83e\udd14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ybmedia\/image\/upload\/c_crop,h_675,w_1200,x_0,y_36\/c_fill,f_auto,h_900,q_auto,w_1600\/v1\/m\/a\/d\/adf3a45793b8c6b079d10fe3766e978702bb7434\/usatsi_22203378.jpg\" alt=\"Chiefs WR Rashee Rice Nearing Surprise Return for Playoffs? | Yardbarker\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After enjoying their first-round playoff bye week, the No. 1 seed Kansas City Chiefs will be back in action on Saturday for a divisional round date with the No. 4 seed Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs&#8217; offense will need a strong showing to overcome Houston&#8217;s defense, which intercepted Justin Herbert four times in the wild-card round.<\/p>\n<p>While they won&#8217;t have No. 1 wide receiver Rashee Rice this weekend &#8211; out since Sept. 29 after suffering a serious knee injury in Week 4 &#8211; the tiniest sliver of hope remains that the 24-year-old star could return for the Super Bowl on Feb. 9, should the Chiefs make it for the third consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p>Rice shared a 41-second progress video on his Instagram story on Monday while rehabbing his knee at the Chiefs facilities. In it, he can be seen doing weighted single-leg squats, indicating substantial progress in his journey back to the field.<\/p>\n<p>Rice had surgery to repair his injured LCL and hamstring tendon on Oct. 8 with the expectation that his 2024 season would be over.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some initial optimism from NFL insiders Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said after the surgery that Rice&#8217;s recovery timeline would track pretty closely to that of a player who tore their ACL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s probably the same result, though, as you&#8217;d get time-wise for an ACL,&#8221; Reid told reporters. &#8220;It takes a while for that to come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It looks like rehab is going great for Rashee Rice.  I thought he wasn\u2019t coming back for the playoffs? He looks way ahead of schedule. Reid never said Super Bowl just playoffs.  He couldn\u2019t be back if the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl, right? <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5: IG | doub11e_r <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aehbe0ZbjS\">pic.twitter.com\/aehbe0ZbjS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Henson Productions (@BradHensonPro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradHensonPro\/status\/1878922055296631285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Still, the video raises the question: Just how realistic is the chance of Rice being ready to go by the second week of February? Don&#8217;t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, the team would need to open up a 21-day practice window for Rice, who was placed on injured reserve on Oct. 3. 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