Ray Rice, unlike Greg Hardy, is still not playing for an NFL team after his high-profile arrest for domestic violence. And if Rice doesn’t get a second chance, the former running back said that instead, he’d like to work for the league to help raise awareness of the issue.

Asked by ESPN’s “SportsCenter” on Sunday to compare his case to that of Hardy, a defensive end who was given a second chance by the Dallas Cowboys after he was arrested on domestic violence charges while he was a member of

It’s time for Ray Rice to be given a chance to return to the National Football League.

This is not a popular opinion. Eleven months after the awful video surfaced showing him punching his soon-to-be wife, Rice remains a pariah. Most Americans view him as the personification of domestic violence, and he says he understands that. Most NFL teams are afraid to touch him, fearing the public onslaught that is certain to come should they bring him in, and he says he understands that, too.

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