Some of Rivers' earlier film credits include The Sacrament(2013) and Magic Mike XXL (2015). Rivers acted in TV series Fatal Attraction and Your Worst Nightmare. In 2016, Rivers was cast as Frank Colton in episode 1x16 of MacGyver. Rivers reprised the role of Frank Colton originally played by Cleavon Little, a member of The Coltons family of bounty Hunters who made frequent appearances in the original MacGyver television series. Rivers' more recent film credits include the suspense thriller Hangman (2017) starring Al Pacino and Karl Urban, also in Den of Thieves starring Gerard Butler and Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson.