{"id":51648,"date":"2025-08-14T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-bristol-sign-wales-wing-for-2025-26-following-rugby-union-return\/14\/08\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:23:30","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-bristol-sign-wales-wing-for-2025-26-following-rugby-union-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-bristol-sign-wales-wing-for-2025-26-following-rugby-union-return\/14\/08\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit: Bristol sign Wales wing for 2025-26 following rugby union return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bristol Bears have signed Wales winger Louis Rees-Zammit for the 2025-26 Prem Rugby season as he <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cpdjn2jzq3zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">returns to the sport<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> following 18 months in the NFL.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/67995451\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">left rugby union in January 2024<\/a> to pursue a career in American football and was on the training squads of the Kansas City Chiefs and Jacksonville Jaguars, but did not play in a regular-season game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rees-Zammit, capped 32 times by Wales, spent six years at Bristol&#8217;s local rivals Gloucester before being released from his contract to join the NFL&#8217;s International Player Pathway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5ye5196qdqo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol Bears have signed Wales winger Louis Rees-Zammit for the 2025-26 Prem Rugby season as he returns to the sport following 18<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-bristol-sign-wales-wing-for-2025-26-following-rugby-union-return\/14\/08\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[4144,2277,4220,26,49,3663,908,64,3314],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/branded_sport\/1200\/cpsprodpb\/eb7a\/live\/5c0f70d0-6139-11ee-ac8c-9d18dbc280ea.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51650,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51648\/revisions\/51650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}