Ray Rice timeline

The Ray

Rice saga

Feb. 15, 2014: Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and his fiancee, Janay Palmer, are arrested and charged with simple assault after an early-morning fight in an elevator at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City.

Feb. 19: TMZ releases video of Rice dragging Palmer out of the elevator at the Revel.

March 27: An Atlantic County grand jury indicts Rice on a charge of third-degree aggravated assault. The charge against Palmer is dropped.

March. 28: Rice and Palmer are married.

May 1: Rice pleads not guilty to aggravated assault; applies for a first-time offenders program that could erase his charges in one year.

May 20: Rice accepted into diversionary program.

May 23: At a Ravens news conference, Rice, with Janay at his side, apologizes for "the situation my wife and I were in."

July 24: NFL suspends Rice for two games.

Aug. 28: NFL announces a new, harsher policy for domestic violence and other violent conduct. Commissioner Roger Goodell issues a letter saying that he got the punishment wrong.

Sept. 8: Ravens terminate Rice's contract and Goodell suspends him indefinitely after TMZ posts another surveillance video showing Rice striking Palmer.

Sept. 16: Players' union announces it has filed an appeal of Rice's indefinite suspension.

Nov. 5: An arbitrator, former U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones, begins hearing Rice's appeal.

Yesterday: Rice wins the appeal of his indefinite suspension and though unsigned by any team, is reinstated, effective immediately.