First unofficial depth chart highlights status of Louis Rees-Zammit
Former Wales player Louis Rees-Zammit is said to have plenty of ground still to cover if he is to make the Kansas City Chiefs squad for the new American football regular season.
The defending SuperBowl champions will commence their campaign on September 9 with a home outing versus the Baltimore Ravens, and the scramble for places in that squad ratchets up this weekend when the Chiefs play the first of three pre-season games.
There is no official indication yet as to what players Kansas will bring with them for that Saturday night outing at Jacksonville Jaguars, but in advance of that match an unofficial position-by-position depth chart has been published on social media by Pete Sweeney who has spent more than a decade covering the club.
The journalist attended day 14 of the Chiefs’ latest training camp on Tuesday and has since produced a roster depth chart suggesting that Rees-Zammit, who signed a three-year deal earlier this year to quit rugby for American football, is ranked in category five for running backs on offence and named third for kick returner on the specialist teams.
These unofficial rankings leave Rees-Zammit sweating for inclusion in next month’s regular-season squad. However, with star players usually excused for pre-season games, the 2021 British and Irish Lions tour pick is expected to feature in the coming weeks in a schedule that also includes home matches at Arrowhead Stadium against Detroit Lions on August 17 and Chicago Bears on August 22.
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I'm pretty disillusioned with Welsh rugby now. I wrote a book a few years ago which contained an analysis of the regional system - they looked ready to act on it but pulled back and things got worse...
I still work with Stuart Lancaster in France and do some other consulting on the side. That is more than enough.
Welsh rugby politics is similar to Aussie, I'm not sure they really acknowledge the need for outside help. Until that changes, nothing else will.
Go to commentsInteresting comment really.
In NZ, the population with Samoan heritage is 185,000 people, or just under 4%.
Tongans in NZ are around 85,000 people, or just under 2%.
Polynesians, as a group (Maori, Cook Islands, Samoan, Tongan, Niue) are around 20-25% of our country's ethnic makeup.
So yeah, shock and horror, we have lots of Polynesians in the ABs, but as you can see from the numbers, they are part of our cultural makeup and reflect our country.
But tell me about Ireland - given you have 3 Polynesian players playing for you - which is around 20% of the run-on team, indeed, you must have hundreds of thousands of people with Maori and Samoan heritage wandering the streets - right?
I mean, the Irish rugby team really reflects Ireland - 3 project players and an Aussie, who, until he signed a professional contract, had never stepped a foot on Irish soil.
Those Waka must have rowed a long way from the South Pacific to enable the Irish Rugby team to have two Maori All-Blacks playing for them😂
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