Ray Rice

• Games Played/Started:  (2008, 13/4); (2009, 7/6) Total: 20/10
• 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.

• Ray Rice was selected by the Ravens in the 2nd round (55th overall) of the 2008 NFL draft

• 2009: Game 7 vs. Den. (11/1): Ranks 2nd in the AFC and 4th in the NFL in yards from scrimmage (874 yards) and leads all AFC RBs and is 2nd among RBs in the NFL with 38 receptions...Carried the ball a career-high 23 times for 84 yards and a TD and led the team with 5 receptions for 24 yards in the 30-7 victory.
• Game 6 at Min. (10/18): Rice ranks 2nd in the NFL with 766 yards from scrimmage...Led the team with 194 total yards, settingcareer highs with 10 receptions for 117 yards (1st-career 100-yard receiving game) and carrying the ball 10 times for 77 yards, including a career-high 2 rushing TDs against the Vikings.
• Game 5 vs. Cin. (10/11): Totaled 143 yards, carrying the ball 14 times for 69 yards and hauling in a career-high-tying 7 receptions for a career-high 74 yards, including his 1st-career TD reception (career-long 48-yard catch and run) against the Bengals.
• Game 4 at NE (10/4): Subbed at RB and led the Ravens with 11 carries for 103 yards, including a season-long 50-yard scamper against the Patriots...Also was 2nd on the team with 5 receptions for 49 yards.
• Game 3 vs. Cle. (9/27): Started and toted the ball 11 times for 48 yards, including his 1st-career NFL TD (9-yard scamper) in the 34-3 victory...Also had 4 receptions for 27 yards against the Browns.
• Game 2 at SD (9/20): Started and carried the ball 8 times for 36 yards (4.5 avg.) and also led the Ravens with 5 receptions for 46 yards in the 31-26 win.
• Game 1 vs. KC (9/13): Started and led the team with 19 carries for 108 yards (2nd-career 100-yard game) and had 2 receptions for 12 yards, while helping set a Ravens’ franchise record with 501 total yards in the 38-24 win.
• 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).

• 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. 

• 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.

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