Ray Rice Speaks on Chance to Return to NFL, More

Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knows he may never play another down of football. But if he does get another chance, Rice is vowing to make the most of it.

The former Pro Bowler appeared on the B-More Opinionated podcast with CBS Sports’ Jason La Canfora and 105.7 FM’s Jerry Coleman on Thursday, when he expounded on what he can bring to a team:

I’m not saying I willingly deserve a second chance. I’m not. But I will say that if there was one guy who took his situation and owned it from day one, doing everything he can to make his wrongs right, taking care of his family and trying to spread a message of how domestic violence cannot be tolerated … Any violence of any kind is wrong, but domestic violence, there is no place for it … I’m out spreading that message because of everything I’ve been through. I don’t want to see anyone else go through anything like what me and my wife went through, but I’m willing to help, man, and I know being in an NFL locker room what I can do to help a young man.

Rice, 29, last played in the NFL in 2013. The Ravens released him in September 2014 after video of him punching his wife in a casino elevator leaked online. The NFL suspended Rice indefinitely but later lost that ruling in an appeals court because of double jeopardy; Rice has been eligible to return since November 2014.

No team has brought …

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