The Welsh winger signed up on Thursday with the English club Bristol Bears after an 18 -month parenthesis in the elite of American football.
Louis Rees-Zammit said he had the feeling of spoiling his talent during his NFL passage with the Chiefs of Kansas City and the Jacksonville Jaguars, but that he did not regret having continued the adventure of American football. The Welsh winger signed Thursday for the Bristol Bears for the 2025-26 Première Rugby season, marking his return after a 18-month visit to the NFL.
The 24 -year -old joined the Chiefs last March after impressive NFL International Player Pathway recruiters. However, the quadruples champions of the Super Bowl dismissed him from their workforce for the 2024 season. He then joined the Jaguars, first as part of their training team last August, then in their active list in February, before choosing to return to Rugby to XV last month.
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“I have no regrets”
“I just felt like I spoil my talent”He told British media on Tuesday. “I did my best, but it is very difficult to enter the NFL if you have not gone through the university system, you simply do not have the same opportunities as these boys. This has sense from the point of view of a coach, because these boys have been practicing this sport for so long and it is difficult to train someone in a sport that he has never practiced before … “
Although he left the NFL without ever playing in a regular season match, Rees-Zammit said that he did not regret having tried his luck and that he had learned a lot from players like the quarter of the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes and the brought winger Travis Kelce. “The simple fact of being involved in a completely different wardrobe from rugby, alongside world figures like Mahomes and Kelce, I learned from everything they did on a daily basis …”he added, before concluding: “I have no regrets. I am very happy to have made this decision. ”
