Ray Rice made around $25 million during his NFL career. Assuming he didn’t blow it all and makes some sound investments or just be smart about his savings, he should be able to live pretty comfortably.
Coming back to the NFL isn’t in his future.
It has been two years and he plays a position that just isn’t valued that much to make teams want to deal with the PR mess.
It is hard to let go, but that is the reality of the situation.