Former SMU cornerback Teddy Knox faces $2.88M judgment for crash linked to Rashee Rice's Lamborghini race

Kansas City Chiefs prima receiver Rashee Rice isn’t the lone 1 facing subject for a March 2024 car clang successful Dallas.

Theodore "Teddy" Knox, a erstwhile SMU cornerback and teammate of Rice’s successful college, was driving a Corvette portion racing Rice's Lamborghini connected a Dallas road earlier it caused a multi-car crash.

Knox has been deed with a $2.88 cardinal default judgement successful a suit from 1 of those clang victims, Kathryn Kuykendall, according to ESPN.

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Teddy Knox and Rashee Rice (Getty Images)

Knox was ruled "grossly negligent" by Judge Kim Bailey Phipps, and a default judgement comes erstwhile a suit has nary effect oregon a enactment does not look successful court. In this case, it was reportedly the latter.

"We’ve asked the tribunal to assistance the default judgement due to the fact that we’re ethically required to arsenic a substance of diligence," Kuykendall’s attorney, Marc Lenahan, said successful a connection to ESPN erstwhile the question was filed. 

"Personally, it pleases america that Teddy hasn’t made further mistakes that we’re alert of. If a squad gives him a accidental to beryllium that he’s walking the close way now, we’ll beryllium rooting for him."

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This marks the 3rd default judgement issued against Knox from the March 2024 crash. He was besides ordered to wage $1.99 cardinal to Irina Gromova and $1.63 cardinal to Edvard Petrovskiy successful combined damages.

Knox and Rice pleaded blameworthy to charges from the crash, and Knox was sentenced to 30 days successful jailhouse and 5 years of probation. Knox was charged with causing a collision involving superior bodily wounded and racing connected a road causing bodily injury.

SMU wide receiver Teddy Knox connected peculiar teams during a crippled against the North Texas Mean Green  Nov. 10, 2023, astatine Gerald Ford Stadium successful Dallas, Texas. (Chris Leduc/Icon Sportswire)

Rice had akin charges, receiving five-year deferred probation and 30 days successful jailhouse arsenic a information of the probation. His jailhouse clip was said to beryllium flexible, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.

Rice was besides required to wage the victims for their out-of-pocket aesculapian expenses, which totaled astir $115,000, arsenic portion of his plea agreement.   

Rice was besides suspended six games for violating the NFL’s idiosyncratic behaviour policy, which helium served past season.

The 25-year-old receiver said successful a connection issued by his lawyer astatine the clip of the league’s determination that he’s had "a batch of sleepless nights reasoning astir the damages my actions caused, and I volition proceed moving wrong my means to marque definite that everyone impacted volition beryllium made whole."

SMU Mustangs wide receiver Teddy Knox (18) prepares to marque a drawback during a crippled betwixt against the TCU Horned Frogs Sept. 24, 2022, astatine Gerald J. Ford Stadium successful Dallas, Texas. (Matthew Visinsky/Icon Sportswire)

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Knox was suspended by SMU, and helium hasn’t been successful assemblage shot ever since. He began his vocation astatine Mississippi State earlier transferring to SMU.

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