Last month, we reported that Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice’s current off-field issues could be complicated by A.J A previously unreported (but little known) incident while at SMU.

“[M]Multiple teams learned during the pre-draft process of an alleged incident involving Rice while he was at SMU,” we posted on May 10. “Rice believed former SMU basketball player Kendrick Davis was seeing Rice’s girlfriend. Rice and some of his friends, according to specific information gathered by at least one team, went to an SMU basketball game. Rice (or someone with him), according to specific information gathered by at least one team, fired several shots into Kendrick Davis’ empty car.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid was recently asked if the team knew about the situation before drafting Rice.

“The way I’ll leave it with you… is we have enough knowledge to formulate it, you know, and then we went through the process and found it satisfactory to us,” Reid said.

When Reid was later asked to elaborate on his comments, he said: “Maybe I’ll leave it there right away. Yeah, I’ll leave it up to you there.”

As we reported at the time, the Chiefs were aware of the situation before drafting Rice. It is believed that every team was aware of this. For whatever reason, the matter was kept secret for over a year. If/when Rice faces sanction under the Personal Conduct Policy for one or more recent off-field issues, this prior situation could become an aggravating factor for the discipline ultimately imposed.