Ray Rice received over $1.5M from Ravens in grievance settlement

Marc Lancaster

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Ray Rice lost millions when the Ravens terminated his contract last fall, but the running back left Baltimore with a nice financial cushion.

Rice and the team settled his wrongful termination grievance for $1.588 million, the Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday. Rice was due to make a $3.529 million base salary in 2014.

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The parties reached the settlement just before a scheduled hearing before arbitrator Shyam Das in January, but the financial terms had not been disclosed. Rice filed the grievance in October, weeks after he was cut by the Ravens when video surfaced of the running back punching his then-fiancée in an Atlantic City casino elevator.

With the settlement, Rice collected a total of $26.588 million from the $35 million contract he signed in July 2012, the Sun reports.

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Marc Lancaster joined The Sporting News in 2022 after working closely with TSN for five years as an editor for the company now known as Stats Perform. He previously worked as an editor at The Washington Times, AOL’s FanHouse.com and the old CNNSportsIllustrated.com, and as a beat writer covering the Tampa Bay Rays, Cincinnati Reds, and University of Georgia football and women’s basketball. A Georgia graduate, he has been a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 2013.