{"id":26294,"date":"2025-02-16T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/super-bowl-2025-ex-wales-rugby-star-louis-rees-zammit-to-decide-new-nfl-team-next-week\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:27:14","slug":"super-bowl-2025-ex-wales-rugby-star-louis-rees-zammit-to-decide-new-nfl-team-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/super-bowl-2025-ex-wales-rugby-star-louis-rees-zammit-to-decide-new-nfl-team-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 2025: Ex-Wales rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit to decide new NFL team &#8216;next week&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Wales rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit says he is looking forward to a second year in American football and expects a decision on where he plays to be made &#8220;in the next week or so&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old is a free agent after the Jacksonville Jaguars opted not to sign him on a reserve\/future contract, so he is able to negotiate with any team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rees-Zammit shocked rugby union in January 2024 when he announced he was quitting the sport to enter the NFL&#8217;s international player pathway, a 10-week crash course designed to teach and assess aspiring players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Initially signed to the Kansas City Chiefs for pre-season training, he moved on to Jacksonville last August and is now considering his plans for 2025 into 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yeah, looking for options,&#8221; Rees-Zammit told ITV Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think in the next week or so we&#8217;ll make a decision on where I am next year, but you know the past year has been [a] crazy experience. Mentally, physically, it&#8217;s been tough, but it was a journey I&#8217;ve always wanted to be on so I&#8217;m loving it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c87dnjeqnnzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wales rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit says he is looking forward to a second year in American football and expects a decision on where he plays to be made &#8220;in the next week or so&#8221;. The 24-year-old is a free agent after the Jacksonville Jaguars opted not to sign him on a reserve\/future contract, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26295,"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\/26294"}],"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=26294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26296,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294\/revisions\/26296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}