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Ray Rice too.

This Sunday at the StubHub Center:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14601 ... giate-bowl

Ray Rice to coach, advise players at NFLPA Collegiate Bowl

Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice is on Mike Martz's coaching staff for the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl as a co-running backs coach with former Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes.

Martz will coach the National Team. Mike Holmgren is the coach of the American Team. The teams will hold practices Tuesday through Thursday this week, with the game to be played Saturday in Carson, California, at the StubHub Center on the California State University Dominguez Hills campus.

Rice, 28, has been out of the NFL since he was released by the Ravens in September 2014 after a video emerged of him punching his then-fiancée Janay Palmer, who is now married to the three-time Pro Bowl player.

The Collegiate Bowl is for draft-eligible college players. In the week leading up to the game, the union offers an introduction to its role in the league and gives advice on the business side of the NFL. Current and former players, like Rice, are given a platform to educate young players based on their experiences.

In an interview with SportsCenter in November, Rice said he has been talking to young players about not making the same mistakes he did and that he'd like "to do something with the NFL" to help spread that message.

"I honestly would hope so," Rice said. "I think the NFL has such a huge platform, and I've seen the platform I had when I was playing, when I would go out and help people. I go out now, and I don't have an NFL platform, but I'm going out there and helping people out. So if I never played a down again, why not see if I could use their platform to go out there and help make a difference?

"Young rookies, anybody in college ... I want to be able to spread all of my experiences to help other people, to make them understand that domestic violence is not OK, not even one time."

The two coaches' full coaching staffs are below:

American Team

Head coach, Mike Holmgren

Offensive coordinator, Gil Haskell

Defensive coordinator, Jim Lind

Special teams coach, Nolan Cromwell

Offensive line coach, Steve Hutchinson

Running backs coach, Carnell "Cadillac" Williams

Tight ends coach, Keith Gilbertson

Inside wide receivers coach, Mike Wilson

Outside wide receivers coach, Matthew Hatchette

Defensive line coaches, Larry Brooks and Steve Ellison

Linebackers coach, Larry MacDuff

Safeties / defensive backs coach, Chip Vaughn

Cornerbacks coach, Darrell Green

Coaching interns, Clint Sintim and Samie Parker

National Team

Head coach, Mike Martz

Offensive coordinator, John Ramsdell

Defensive coordinator, Ron Meeks

Special teams coach, Jeff Robinson

Offensive line coaches, Jackie Slater and Dan Price

Running backs coaches, Priest Holmes and Ray Rice

Tight ends coach, Dave Ogas

Inside wide receivers Coach, Az-Zahir Hakim

Outside wide receivers coach, Andre Reed

Defensive line coach, Jeff Zgonina

Linebackers coach, Michael Merriweather

Safeties / defensive backs coach, Keith Lyle

Cornerbacks coach, Ron Lynn

Coaching intern, Gerald McGrath

Lol. Nice headline. There's a lot of former Rams coaching in that game.

That staff (Martz') looks better than ours, lol

This is the third year in a row that Martz and Holmgren have headed each side of this game. I thought it was because both of them wanted back into the league but neither of them has got any work out of it.

Nice post. I might go check it out, just down the street.