Travis Kelce's star teammate files for bankruptcy with $3.5M in debts — claims most of it stems from civil litigation over high-speed car crash

Rice spent 30 days in a Dallas County jail earlier this year because of a probation violation tied to the 2024 crash. The athlete, who still has a Super Bowl LVIII ring, commented in an August 2026 press conference covered by KCTV5 News that the experience was difficult, saying, “It was tough. It was mentally tough.” That Super Bowl ring, valued at $160,000, is now listed as collateral for his civil attorney’s unpaid fees.

How a 26-year-old accumulated $3.45 million in debts

Roughly $2.1 million of the total is tied directly to civil lawsuits, according to Yahoo Sports. The single largest creditor is Kathryn Kuykendall, an Uber passenger who was struck in the crash.

In a statement to Dallas station WFAA in July 2025, Kuykendall’s attorney, Marc Lenahan, said Rice had not paid what he owed. Stating, “he’s left her [Kuykendall] to struggle for more than a year already, and it seems that he plans to let her struggle without payment for at least another year.”

Rice still owes her more than $979,000 of the $1 million civil settlement she agreed to, according to USA TODAY. He is also disputing another $700,000 across lawsuits filed by the other crash victims seeking damages for physical and mental trauma.

FOX 4 News reported in February 2026 that Rice’s ex-girlfriend, Dacoda Nichole Jones, brought a civil suit against him, seeking more than $1 million, over claims that he physically abused her from 2023 up until 2025. In his Chapter 7 filing, Rice attributed a contested $200,000 debt to that lawsuit.

Jones took to Instagram in January, alleging a multi-year pattern of abuse, although she did not mention Rice’s name in the post. She wrote, “I’m so tired of keeping quiet, I’m so tired of protecting his image.” Dov Kleiman, who reports NFL news and stories, shared the post on X.

Another $185,226.45 reported in Rice’s bankruptcy filing represents the sum he owes civil-litigation attorney Thomas McMurray, and that is the reason his Super Bowl ring is on the collateral list.