{"id":37489,"date":"2025-08-01T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37489\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:59:10","slug":"jordan-petaia-sidelined-for-nfl-hall-of-fame-match-as-chargers-defeat-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37489\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Petaia sidelined for NFL Hall-of-Fame match as Chargers defeat Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was set to become the first Wallaby<\/a> to ever play an NFL<\/a> pre-season game but Jordan Petaia<\/a> did not see the field as the LA Chargers defeated Detroit Lions 34-7 in the annual Hall of Fame match on Friday.<\/p>\n

Petaia, who was set to line up at tight-end for the Chargers, did not play even though reports prior to the match stated the former Wallaby would see some snaps.<\/p>\n

Trey Lance, playing for his third team in his fifth season, threw for 120 yards and two touchdowns as the Chargers dominated from start to finish.<\/p>\n

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Since arriving in April, Petaia has trained at tight end. The position is filled with plenty of nuance, so it’s quite feasible the Chargers gave him another week of preparation before the next pre-season game on August 11 against the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n

Petaia joined the Bolts as a member of the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program (IPP) class of 2025.<\/p>\n

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Jordan Petaia.\u00a0X<\/p>\n

The Hall of Fame game marks the start of the NFL pre-season and is the first televised game since the Super Bowl in February.<\/p>\n

Petaia impressed scouts at the Chagers after he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.58 seconds and had a 40.5-inch (102.87cm) vertical jump, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n

Petaia made his debut for the Wallabies at the age of 19 and was already a veteran of two World Cups when he decided to switch to the NFL.<\/p>\n

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Trey Lance of the Los Angeles Chargers throws.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Queenslander said a promise to his late father to give gridiron a try had always stayed with him and spent 10 weeks at Florida’s IMG Academy completing a crash course in American football.<\/p>\n

That culminated in a trial in front of scouts from all 32 NFL teams, with the 25-year-old impressing enough to be scooped up by the Chargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was set to become the first Wallaby to ever play an NFL pre-season game but Jordan Petaia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-37489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}