The NFL is not yet done with Ray Rice.
That's what Sports Illustrated's Monday Morning Quarterback reporter Peter King told Chris Simms on the Simms and Lefkoe Podcast, according to Bleacher Report.
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The league recently lent its support to a Rice return, saying it would serve as a character witness for any team that asked about him.
Simms asked King whether Rice would get another chance in league.
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"Yes, I do. I really do," King replied. "I think he's going to get signed. I know that there's one team that has a great back and he's high on their short list. What that means, obviously, is that if there's one or two more injuries ..."
The former Ravens running back is the poster child for domestic violence in the NFL after his infamous Atlantic City casino elevator videos were released in 2014 -- the first showing him drag his unconscious fiancée, Janay Palmer, out of the elevator, and the second of him punching her in the elevator as she lunged toward him.
The NFL, which originally suspended Baltimore's favorite football son for two games for the domestic violence charge, turned around and suspended him indefinitely after the second video went viral in September.
A judge rescinded that suspension in November, but no team has offered the embattled back even an opportunity to try out. King said Rice has one name ahead of him in the free agent pecking order that would delay any potential chance to sign.
"I think Pierre Thomas is hurting him right now," King said. "Pierre Thomas is the next guy on a lot of people's lists, even though people are worried about Pierre Thomas' injury history."
King added that a little-known reason that contributed to his original two-game suspension was his willingness to help the NFL with any public service announcements or appearances it had requested.
"For three years at least in Baltimore, when the Ravens' PR staff, when the Ravens' community staff needed a PSA to be cut somewhere in Maryland, if they needed a spokesman for anti-bullying in Maryland, Ray Rice said, 'I'll do it,'" King said. "When they needed anything -- on Tuesday, players' day off -- Ray Rice said, 'I'll do it.' So group after group after group came forward and said, 'We love Ray Rice.'"
According to King, while NFL commissioner Roger Goodell thought Rice's actions toward his then-fiancée were horrible, he thought of it only as "a moment in time."
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