Colts Need Some Instant Rice

Simeon Rice needs to send a muffin basket to whichever Chargers lineman messed up Dwight Freeney's left foot because he's the only reason Rice isn't sitting at home right now. Rice was claimed off of waivers by the Colts, which means that teams in order from worst record to best can make a claim on his current contract before he is released outright into free agency. I'm not sure if they go by current record or prior season, but either way, most other teams passed on him before he landed on a team in desperate need of a right defensive end.

Keep an eye on the rest of his season. I'm betting he doesn't make much of an impact. I'm not a big Mike Shanahan fan, but it's unlikely he's going to release a player that is of any use to him at all. And since I can't stand to put another picture of Rice on this site for a while, here's the gnome trying to stifle his laugher as he learns someone actually claimed him.