{"id":20546,"date":"2025-07-31T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rees-zammit-leaves-nfl-return-to-rugby-after-stints-with-chiefs-and-jaguars\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:14:10","slug":"rees-zammit-leaves-nfl-return-to-rugby-after-stints-with-chiefs-and-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/rees-zammit-leaves-nfl-return-to-rugby-after-stints-with-chiefs-and-jaguars\/","title":{"rendered":"Rees-Zammit Leaves NFL: Return to Rugby After Stints with Chiefs and Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, Florida \u2013 Louis Rees-Zammit, the talented rugby player, has made a surprising decision that marks a turning point in his sporting career.\n\nRees-Zammit announced via his social media that he will leave the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL to return to rugby, a sport in which he shone representing Wales and on tours with the British &amp; Irish Lions.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt has been a great experience, but it&#8217;s time to go home. I have decided that this is the best time to make this decision and give myself time to prepare for next season. There&#8217;s only one thing on my mind, which is to return to rugby and do what I do best. I can&#8217;t explain how excited I am!\u201d, shared Rees-Zammit.<\/p><cite>Louis Rees-Zammit<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe 24-year-old player, who signed with the Kansas City Chiefs at the end of March 2024 as part of the International Player Pathway program, was used as a running back and participated in all three preseason games, accumulating 22 yards on six carries.\n\nThe Chiefs released him on August 27th and the Jaguars signed him the next day, re-positioning him as a receiver. Rees-Zammit practiced with the Jaguars&#8217; practice squad during the 2024 season, but was never promoted to the active roster.\n\nIn February, the Jaguars included him on their 90-player roster.\n\nJacksonville&#8217;s training camp began on July 23, but Rees-Zammit suffered a lower back injury in the team&#8217;s second practice, limiting his participation in the following five.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville, Florida \u2013 Louis Rees-Zammit, the talented rugby player, has made a surprising decision that marks a turning point in his sporting career. Rees-Zammit announced via his social media that he will leave the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL to return to rugby, a sport in which he shone representing Wales and on tours with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1095,6663,64,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-20546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-jaguars","9":"tag-louis-rees-zammit","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}