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Bio

Highlights
  • Games Played/Started:  (2008, 13/4) Total: 13/4
  • Playoffs: Total 2/0
  • Shifty playmaker, who has superior moves in the open field and also can run between the tackles
  • Saw action in 13 games, including 4 starts, as a rookie (missed final 3 games of the regular season with a lower leg injury)
  • Rice finished 3rd on the team with 107 carries for 454 yards, including a long of 60
  • Also finished 4th on the team with 33 receptions for 273 yards.
Transactions
  • Ray Rice was selected by the Ravens in the 2nd round (55th overall) of the 2008 NFL draft
Pro Career
  • 2008: Saw action in 13 games, including 4 starts, as a rookie (missed final 3 games of the regular
  • season with a lower leg injury)
  • Rice finished 3rd on the team with 107 carries for 454 yards, including a long of 60
  • Also finished 4th on the team with 33 receptions for 273 yards
  • Was part of a RB trio (Le’Ron McClain [902 yards] and Willis McGahee [671 yards]) who rushed for 2,027 of the Ravens’ 2,376 yards in 2008
  • Started and exploded for 176 total yards, carrying the ball 21 times for a career-high 154 rushing yards - the most by any RB in the NFL in week 9, including a career-long 60-yard romp, which set up a Matt Stover go-ahead FG in the 4th quarter in Game 8 at Cle. (11/2).
  • The contest marked his 1st-career 100-yard rushing game
  •  Also pulled in 3 receptions for 22 yards and had 1 KOR for 6 yards in the 37-27 win over the Browns
  • Rice posted 3 postseason receptions for 43 yards and 1 rush for 2 yards in 2 games (did not see action in the Wild Card contest).
College Career
  • Two-time All-America 2nd-team honoree and 2007 Doak Walker Award finalist
  • Rice decided to forgo his senior season at Rutgers and enter the NFL Draft
  • In 38 career games for the Scarlet Knights, Rice set all-time school rushing records with 910 attempts for 4,926 yards (5.4 avg.), 49 TDs and a long run of 90 yards
  • Rice is the 1st player in program history to rush for over 1,000 yards in 3 seasons
  • His string of 8 consecutive 100-yard rushing games to close out 2007 set another school record, while his total of 25 100-yard games and 6 200-yard rushing performances are also all-time Rutgers records
  • Rice’s 49 TD runs are topped only by Lee Suggs of Virginia Tech (53, 1999-2002) in Big East history
  • Was a communications major at Rutgers
  • All-America 2nd-team selection by The NFL Draft Report, The Sporting News, Walter Camp Football Foundation, Associated Press and Sports Illustrated, adding 1st-team honors from Rivals.com as a senior in 2007
  • Was a Doak Walker Award finalist (nation’s top RB), Maxwell Award (country’s top player) semi-finalist and 1st-team All-Big East performer
  • He set Big East and school records with 2,012 yards on 380 attempts
  • Also set a Scarlet Knights’ record with 24 rushing TDs and finished 3rd nationally with an average of 154.8 ground yards per game
  • Second-team All-America selection by The NFL Draft Report, Walter Camp Foundation,Associated Press, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated and Rivals.com as a junior in 2006. 
Personal
  • Attended New Rochelle (NY) HS, where he was named to Madison Square Garden’s All-Heisman Team, was an All-State 1st-team choice and garnered team offensive MVP honors as a senior
  • In his final prep campaign, he carried 112 times for 1,192 yards (10.6 avg.) and 31 TDs
  • As a junior, Rice piled up 1,332 yards and 21 scores on the ground
  • Also played point guard for the basketball team, leading his school to the state finals in 2003-2004
  • Regularly volunteers tutoring special education children at the Henry Barnard School in New Rochelle, where his mother teaches
  • During the summers, he has been a camp counselor for the parks and recreation department
  • Joined teammates Willis McGahee and Le’Ron McClain at the Ravens’ Running Backs Thanksgiving
  • Distribution in 2008 to distribute the necessary food items to families in need at Owen Brown Inter-Faith Center in Columbia, MD
  • Also during the 2008 Thanksgiving holiday, he served Thanksgiving dinner to the men in need at the Helping Up Mission homeless shelter in Baltimore
  • Rice participated in the 4th Annual Holiday Helpers shopping event in Dec. 2008, serving as a personal shopper for 55 youth with gift certificates to Target donated by teammates Derrick Mason and Samari Rolle
  • Ray held his inaugural football camp in June 2008 in his hometown of New Rochelle, NY
  • QB Joe Flacco joined Rice to help instruct the campers
  • Full name: Raymell Maurice Rice.