The Chiefs are anticipated to signal Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit, a participant within the NFL’s Worldwide Participant Pathway program. However not each participant in that program can signal proper now.
Three gamers within the Worldwide Participant Pathway program are eligible to be chosen within the 2024 NFL draft, and might solely signal with groups in the event that they go undrafted.
The league workplace tells PFT that Rees-Zammit is a free agent as a result of he didn’t attend school and is greater than 4 years faraway from highschool (or his highschool equal). He technically might have been drafted throughout his fourth 12 months out of highschool, though at the moment he had by no means expressed any curiosity in quitting rugby for the NFL and there was no motive for any crew to contemplate drafting him.
Eagles offensive sort out Jordan Mailata is, like Rees-Zammit, a world rugby participant who determined to hitch the NFL’s Worldwide Participant Pathway program. However Mailata was eligible for the draft in 2018, when the Eagles took him within the seventh spherical. That’s as a result of the 12 months he entered the NFL’s Worldwide Participant Pathway program occurred to be his fourth 12 months out of highschool.
Travis Clayton of England, Bayron Matos of the Dominican Republic and Jotham Russell of Australia are the three gamers on this 12 months’s Worldwide Participant Pathway program who’re of their fourth years out of highschool, so these three all could possibly be drafted. The opposite gamers in this system are, like Rees-Zammit, free brokers.
Though NFL follow squads are restricted to 16 gamers, the league will grant a seventeenth follow squad spot to any NFL crew that indicators a participant from the Worldwide Participant Pathway program and places him on the follow squad. It’s possible that a number of gamers from this system will probably be on follow squads in 2024. Rees-Zammit, who has been the most-discussed participant from this system, might even make the Chiefs’ lively roster.
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