Ray Rice in a Dallas Cowboys uniform isn't out of the realm of possibilities this season.
Ray Rice's legal team is arguing that it wasn't fault that the NFL refused to look at the video in which he struck and knocked out fiancée Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City casino elevator during the Valentine's Day weekend earlier this year.
Ray Rice asks NFLPA to fast-track his suspension appeal
That argument could get the former Baltimore Ravens running back a return to the NFL by Week 10, according to CBSSports.com.
Rice has appealed for reinstatement and former U.S. District Court Judge Barbara S. Jones is handling the case as a neutral arbitrator.
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CBSSports.com reported:
"Rice has maintained he did not lie in his testimony to Commissioner Roger Goodell, and his legal team will make the case that even under the NFL's new domestic violence policy, and as a first-time offender, Rice should be suspended a maximum of six games, which has already passed. Furthermore, they will make the argument that the video tape of Rice's actions were available to the team and the league throughout the process of determining his discipline, and thus nothing changed whatsoever with the case from the time Rice was suspended two games, until eventually being suspended indefinitely, save for TMZ obtaining and posting the video."
Sources told CBSSports.com that Rice has a solid argument for reinstatement. The report speculated that the Indianapolis Colts, coached by former Ravens assistant Chuck Pagano, or the New England Patriots, in which coach Bill Belichick is close to Rice's college coach, Greg Schiano, could be interested in Rice as a replacement for Stevan Ridley.
Ridley is out for the season with a torn ACL.
But the Dallas Cowboys' DeMarco Murray, the NFL's runaway rushing leader with 913 yards on 187 carries, has never played an entire season and is on pace for more than 400 carries.
Talk already is circulating that the Murray won't be able to keep up that pace, and Rice would be a big insurance policy that Jones likely would weigh against the backlash signing Ray would produce because this could be the Cowboys' best chance for a Super Bowl appearance since their run of three Super Bowls in four years in the mid-1990s.
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