Louis Rees-Zammit Misses Out on Kansas City Chiefs' 53-Man Roster but Remains Hopeful for NFL Career

the former Wales Winger who quit rugby in January to pursue a career in the NFL has been training with the Chiefs throughout the offseason the 23-year-old played in all three of their preseason games but missed out on the NFLs cutdown day teams have an offseason training Squad of 90 players and must select 53 for the start of the season for which the deadline was Tuesday reit's hopes of playing during the regular season are not over though he will now be placed on waivers meaning another team can sign him but he is expected to continue training with the Chiefs as part of their practice squad that would give him more time to adapt to the sport and the NFL champions can promote him to their active roster up to three times during the season NFL teams can promote to players from their practice squad each game re zam's NFL Journey began with a 10-week training camp as part of the NFLs International player pathway IP he was then signed by the Chiefs who have won the pass to Super Bowls and although he was earmarked as a running back he played in a variety of positions during preseason as the Chiefs tried to find his most suitable role but his chances of making the cut were Delta blow on Monday when they resigned experienced receiver Jud Smith Schuster giving him the number nine jersey that the Welsh rookie has worn during preseason fellow IP product praise Olo was signed by the Los Angeles Chargers in June and although the former Sprinter featured in their first preseason game the Scot was released the following week former gelic footballers Charlie SMI and Jude mccy also missed out despite playing in preseason with the new oon saint and New York Giants respectively a shoulder injury meant Travis Clayton could not play in preseason for the Buffalo Bills who have designated The exing Stoke rugby player as an injured reserve so he is set to continue training with the bills once fit meanwhile NFL team owners have voted to allow private Equity investment in a landmark move that could see billions of dollars in new funding in the league historically franchises have been run as family businesses or owned by wealthy individuals but handpicked firms are set to be allowed to purchase a team stake of up to 10% the last franchise to be sold was the Washington commanders last year for a league record of about 44.8 billion