{"id":15449,"date":"2024-03-29T04:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-what-would-signing-for-nfl-team-mean-where-could-he-go\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T04:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:51:02","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-what-would-signing-for-nfl-team-mean-where-could-he-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-what-would-signing-for-nfl-team-mean-where-could-he-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit: What would signing for NFL team mean? Where could he go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even if Rees-Zammit does not make a 53-man roster, he would earn a considerable amount of money by signing for an NFL team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last season, players on a practice squad had a yearly salary of \u00a3170,700 &#8211; just under \u00a310,000 for each of the 18 weeks of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That figure goes up if players have multiple years of experience, and increases significantly if they can secure a spot in a franchise&#8217;s 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023, the minimum salary for first-year players was close to \u00a3600,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even the salary of a practice squad player exceeds what most rugby players in the English Premiership would earn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/61819927\" class=\"ssrcss-wvcshj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">report from 2022<\/a> showed the average salary in the league during the 2020-21 season was a little under \u00a3144,000 a year, and due to salary caps that figure will not have drastically increased since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Premiership clubs unanimously agreed to cut the salary cap to \u00a35m in the summer of 2020 in response to the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, but it is set to return to \u00a36.4m next season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/68683384\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Rees-Zammit does not make a 53-man roster, he would earn a considerable amount of money by signing for an NFL team. Last season, players on a practice squad had a yearly salary of \u00a3170,700 &#8211; just under \u00a310,000 for each of the 18 weeks of the regular season. That figure goes up if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15451,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions\/15451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}