{"id":41537,"date":"2025-08-02T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41537\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:54:08","slug":"rees-zammit-to-return-to-rugby-after-nfl-dream-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41537\/","title":{"rendered":"Rees-Zammit to return to rugby after NFL dream ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wales winger Louis Rees-Zammit said on Friday he was returning to rugby union after giving up on his attempt to break into the NFL.<\/p>\n

Rees-Zammit spent last season with Jacksonville Jaguars having been cut by the Kansas City Chiefs the previous campaign, but failed to make an NFL appearance for either franchise as a wide receiver.<\/p>\n

Watch the Wallabies take on the British & Irish Lions live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 24-year-old had originally made the move across the sports by joining the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program in 2024.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a great experience but it’s time to come home,” Rees-Zammit said on social media.<\/p>\n

“I’ve decided that this is the best time to make this decision to give myself time to get everything in place for next season,” he added.<\/p>\n

The former British and Irish Lions speedster did not disclose which club he would be playing for in the coming campaign.<\/p>\n

Struggling Wales’ next game is against Argentina on November 9 as they eye a first Test win at home since August 2023.<\/p>\n

“There’s only one thing that’s on my mind, that’s coming back to rugby and doing what I do best,” Rees-Zammit said.<\/p>\n

“There’ll be more news to come soon,” he added.<\/p>\n

The Welsh Rugby Union gave Rees-Zammit’s announcement a tongue-in-cheek response, posting on social media: “We hope you make it back in time for selection… but if you don’t” with a link to the ticketing website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales winger Louis Rees-Zammit said on Friday he was returning to rugby union after giving up on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82,29604],"class_list":["post-41537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}