{"id":83855,"date":"2025-08-20T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83855\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:18:08","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-became-fed-up-with-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83855\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit became “fed up” with NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL means Not For Long, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

For Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit, it didn\u2019t take much time for him to realize that a pro football career was not in the cards. So he pulled the plug<\/a> and went back to his original sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just felt like I was kind of wasting my talent out there<\/a>,\u201d Rees-Zammit said, via the Times. \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to get into the NFL if you haven\u2019t gone through the college system. You just don\u2019t get the same opportunities as those boys. I was getting minimal reps, and it was just something that I was fed up with when I was practicing there.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his time with the Chiefs and Jaguars, Rees-Zammit witnessed the ever-revolving door.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was absolutely brutal,\u201d he said. \u201cI was seeing new players every day, players cut every day. It was pretty tough, and I knew that going out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rees-Zammit did not make it to the active roster for any NFL team. He spent time with both the Chiefs and Jaguars. He played some preseason football. But, ultimately, he decided he wouldn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n

The kicker may have come from witnessing the influx of a new crop of college players during the 2025 offseason program. That\u2019s the case every year. Fresh prospects, who have been playing tackle football for years.<\/p>\n

And so Rees-Zammit has returned to the sport that he grew up playing, where that experience gives him a significant advantage against someone like, say, a career pro football player who decides to take up rugby on a whim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL means Not For Long, in more ways than one. For Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit, it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-83855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83855","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=83855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}