Former Wallaby Jordan Petaia\u2019s NFL journey could be over as soon as it started, after the 25-year-old was suddenly cut by the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n
Signed as a tight end, Petaia was on the field for just three plays in his NFL debut last Friday when the Chargers\u2019 thrashed the Detroit Lions in the league\u2019s pre-season opener.<\/p>\n
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In a cruel twist, Petaia was released because of an undisclosed injury designation not even a week later. His position on the roster was replaced by another Aussie in Thomas Yassmin. <\/p>\n
It means that Petaia has lost his International Pathways Player slot and in turn, a guarantee he would stay on the roster beyond the NFL\u2019s end-of-pre-season roster cuts where teams whittle their roster down from 90 to 53 players in readiness for the start of the regular season early next month. <\/p>\n
Petaia is now free to sign with another team but this latest move from the Chargers is a massive blow to the former Wallaby\u2019s NFL dream.<\/p>\n
While unfortunate for Petaia, Yassmin has been given another chance after being cut by the Denver Broncos in May.<\/p>\n
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 02: Thomas Yassmin #87 of the Utah Utes scores a touchdown against Abdul Carter #11 of the Penn State Nittany Lions during the second quarter in the 2023 Rose Bowl Game at Rose Bowl Stadium on January 02, 2023 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Yassmin, a tight end who played college football at Utah, spent last season on Denver\u2019s practice squad, but never featured on game day. <\/p>\n
Yassmin attended the prestigious Scots College in Sydney and played in the Australian Schoolboys rugby union side before relocating to America.<\/p>\n
He played at Utah from 2018-2023 and then signed with Denver as an undrafted free agent the following year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wallaby Jordan Petaia\u2019s NFL journey could be over as soon as it started, after the 25-year-old was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[2095,64,63,689,4589,485,594,11096,1256,3055,43990,43989,20924,2105,9139,673,593,2041,2067,677,43987,43988,43991,43985,85,670,43811,43986,2614],"class_list":["post-52572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brutal-blow","tag-california","tag-college-football","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-el-segundo","tag-end-of-pre-season-roster-cuts","tag-game-day","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-national-football-league","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nfl","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-pasadena","tag-practice-squad","tag-ronald-martinez","tag-scots-college","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-thomas-yassmin","tag-undisclosed-injury-designation","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572","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=52572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}