The NFL means Not For Long, in more ways than one.

For Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit, it didn’t take much time for him to realize that a pro football career was not in the cards. So he pulled the plug and went back to his original sport.

“I just felt like I was kind of wasting my talent out there ,” Rees-Zammit said, via the Times . “It’s very difficult to get into the NFL if you haven’t gone through the college system. You just don’t get the same opportunities as those boys. I was getting minimal reps, and it was just something that I was fed up with when I was practicing there.”

During his time with the Chiefs and Jaguars, Rees-Zammit witnessed the ever-revolving door.

“It was absolutely brutal,” he said. “I was seeing new players every day, players cut every day. It w

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