{"id":255733,"date":"2025-08-02T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255733\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:55:10","slug":"former-kansas-city-chiefs-rb-louis-rees-zammit-announces-return-to-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255733\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kansas City Chiefs RB Louis Rees-Zammit announces return to rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> project attempting to transition from rugby to the NFL is deciding to end its football journey. Louis Rees-Zammit began his professional football career with Kansas City in 2024, posting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMyfJ8DC0f-\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> his intentions to return to the sport that made him famous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got an exciting announcement to make! I&#8217;ve decided to leave the NFL and return to rugby!&#8221; wrote Rees-Zammit. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a great experience, but it&#8217;s time to come home. I&#8217;ve decided that this is the best time to make this decision to give myself time to get everything in place for next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs shocked the football world when they announced they added the Welsh rugby star last year. He was a product of the NFL International Player Pathway program.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rees-Zammit played in all three preseason games, showing his versatility in different positions. Chiefs general manager Brett Veach and his staff <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2024\/08\/30\/kansas-city-chiefs-gm-brett-veach-reveals-thoughts-on-cutting-louis-rees-zammit\/75010632007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:took notice;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">took notice<\/a>, but may not have seen his development working in time to make the roster. He finished last season on the practice squad with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Jaguars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/08\/02\/ex-kansas-city-chiefs-rb-louis-rees-zammit-announces-return-to-rugby\/85474347007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ex-Kansas City Chiefs RB Louis Rees-Zammit announces return to rugby;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ex-Kansas City Chiefs RB Louis Rees-Zammit announces return to rugby<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Kansas City Chiefs project attempting to transition from rugby to the NFL is deciding to end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,125,118,110,2438,2437,6,50601,50602],"class_list":{"0":"post-255733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-professional-football-career","17":"tag-rugby-star"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114958809803990094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}