{"id":51582,"date":"2025-08-07T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51582\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:50:07","slug":"former-wallabies-talent-waived-by-los-angeles-chargers-replaced-by-nfl-aussie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51582\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wallabies talent waived by Los Angeles Chargers, replaced by NFL Aussie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL journey of former Wallabies talent Jordan Petaia has stalled, after the 25-year-old was waived due to an undisclosed injury by the Los Angeles Chargers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Petaia joined the Chargers through the NFL&#8217;s International Player Pathway (IPP) in April at Tight End, and looked set to become the league&#8217;s newest Aussie talent, but an injury looks to have cut this short.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To replace him, the team have signed another Australian IPP product &#8211;\u00a0Thomas Yassmin &#8211; who spent last season on the Denver Broncos practice squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Wallabies talent waived by Los Angeles Chargers<\/p>\n<p>Petaia&#8217;s stint with the Los Angeles Chargers has ended before it could begin, with the 31-game Wallaby to miss the 2025-26 season due to injury.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former Wallaby Jordan Petaia has been waived by the Chargers due to injury, but they&#8217;ve signed another Aussie in the meantime&#8230; \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>DETAILS \ud83d\udcdd: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NqmI4c1VmR\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/NqmI4c1VmR<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JTjK5pFSbp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JTjK5pFSbp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Australia &amp; NZ (@ESPNAusNZ) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNAusNZ\/status\/1953563063367741520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was waived heading into Week 2 of pre-season, and replaced by a fellow Aussie in Thomas Yassmin, a Sydney product who attended the University of Utah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Petaia did not suit up for the Chargers in their pre-season opener against the Detroit Lions in the Hall of Fame Game.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL journey of former Wallabies talent Jordan Petaia has stalled, after the 25-year-old was waived due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-51582","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\/51582","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=51582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}