{"id":39571,"date":"2025-08-02T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39571\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:06:07","slug":"where-next-for-louis-rees-zammit-after-return-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39571\/","title":{"rendered":"Where next for Louis Rees-Zammit after return from NFL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the face of it, August is the wrong time to be hunting a club, but Rees-Zammit’s abilities and profile mean that plenty will be keen to find room in their budget.<\/p>\n

“He’s still so young,” former Wales scrum-half Richie Rees told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast. <\/a><\/p>\n

“He is explosive and his repeated speed, his lateral movement, is one of the best in the business and that’s why he went on the British and Irish Lions tour last time.”<\/p>\n

Rees-Zammit’s tally of 32 caps means he can play outside Wales and still be eligible for Test rugby under the Welsh Rugby Union’s (WRU) selection policy.<\/p>\n

Japan and France is where the money is in rugby and he was linked with several Top 14 clubs before making his move to American football.<\/p>\n

If his destination is England, then Gloucester, where he made his name with dazzling displays at Kingsholm, would appear to be a good fit on a playing front, but there will be salary cap issues.<\/p>\n

If Rees-Zammit fancies being part of an exciting project then the news Red Bull are poised to invest in Newcastle<\/a> might have made his ears prick up.<\/p>\n

The Falcons could be keen for a poster boy and there is a fast track at Kingston Park.<\/p>\n

Then there is R360, a potential breakaway franchise league that wants to attract superstars with a view to a first season between September and December 2026.<\/p>\n

However, there are still questions about what that ambitious competition will look like and Rees-Zammit has surely had enough inactivity in the NFL and will not be short of suitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the face of it, August is the wrong time to be hunting a club, but Rees-Zammit’s abilities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-39571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}