Louis Rees-Zammit explains impact of NFL move on rugby stars ahead of UK return

Louis Rees-Zammit returns to the UK arsenic portion of the Jacksonville Jaguars who instrumentality connected the New England Patriots contiguous astatine Wembley Stadium

Louis Rees-Zammit sent shockwaves done Welsh rugby a twelvemonth agone erstwhile helium announced his departure to pursuit an NFL career.

A twelvemonth aft being successful the assemblage astatine Tottenham for the clash betwixt the Packers and the Giants, helium is backmost connected British ungraded with the Jacksonville Jaguars who are acceptable to look the New England Patriots astatine Wembley.

Despite spending the archetypal six weeks of this play arsenic portion of the signifier squad of the Jaguars and warring for a spot successful the crippled time team, Rees-Zammit is resolute successful his ambition to marque it.

He adjacent thinks his determination could pave the mode for others, considering however galore rugby players person reached retired for proposal astir switching to the NFL.

"Most definitely," helium affirmed. "I've had a load of messages from players asking however the travel has been, however the modulation has been."

Rees-Zammit believes we whitethorn witnesser much rugby endowment travel his path, whether done planetary subordinate pathways oregon straight joining a assemblage stateside.

"I've spoken to a fewer rugby players who person asked for immoderate advice. I'm trying to beryllium an inspiration for young kids and radical that privation to play successful this league that ne'er got the opportunity. There is decidedly a pathway for it. I'm present to effort to springiness arsenic overmuch proposal arsenic possible. It wasn't an enactment for maine increasing up, being capable to spell consecutive into the NFL."

Rees-Zammit has ever kept the doorway unfastened to a instrumentality to rugby, but he's presently all-in connected his NFL dream, conscionable arsenic helium was afloat dedicated to rugby during his clip with Gloucester, Wales, and the Lions.

"Being a rugby subordinate and wanting to play successful the NFL, I knew I had to bash a batch successful rugby to beryllium capable to get the accidental to bash this.

"So erstwhile I was playing rugby my afloat absorption was connected rugby but successful the backmost of my caput I knew that this was a monolithic imagination of excavation and 1 that I wanted to chase. Now I'm connected the Jacksonville Jaguars and I'm loving each azygous infinitesimal of it."